RE: New development in Cobol or PL/SQL - please help

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Babette Turner-Underwood wrote:

> As far as staff and skills, the current job market
> has an excess of persons with PL/SQL skills.
> So I don't think the decisions was made with any
> respect to how many people will be able to maintain
> this over the next 10 years. The number of people
> with COBOL skills is declining at the organization.
> But if they keep doing new development in COBOL,
> then maybe they will be able to convince the younger
> programmers to learn it :-P

Only if the younger programmers are in their fifties. COBOL is a maintainance programmers language.

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