8 Aug
2008
8 Aug
'08
7:15 p.m.
madodel wrote:
Eric Smith wrote:
My little brother was one of those y2k guys. He made a fair pocket
full of cash fixing code, from about '97 to 2002.
He also says, at 49 years old, that he'll dig ditches at minimum wage
before he goes back to COBOL.
Just saying.
Doc
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Just prior to y2k they were paying large bonuses to get C programmers to
learn COBOL so the 100s of millions of lines of code could be checked
and patched. Large companies were desperate. I'm sure a lot of these
folks were canned after 2000 when all the Y2K nonsense finally ended but
I'm sure they aren't all retired. And they should still be around if
someone offered them enough money. I haven't written any code since
2001, because any contract would have required me to travel which I
couldn't do any more. But it was great while it lasted.