Plans for getting back in the game

[NotAllThere]

yeh, me too, but in HLAL and REXX mostly.

I really enjoyed programming in REXX. Early 90s, British Gas. System programming on an Amdahl VM system.

[Dorkeaux]

I really enjoyed programming in REXX. Early 90s, British Gas. System programming on an Amdahl VM system.

I must have coded millions of lines of 360 assembler, COBOL and other languages.

I found fluency and something to love in them just as I came to appreciate newer object-oriented languages, c+, gawk, sed, bash and perl. And now some Python.

I can't say I loved the syntax ad style of the old languages more than the new, but what I do miss badly is the stability of the tools and languages.
It used to be that JCL, COBOL, Fortran and all the infrastructure didn't change every month or so like many new languages do.
A stable platform allowed computer programmers to focus on solving the business problems instead of doing the software company's testing for them.

I hate having to manage my own Python installation, adding libraries, making sure my client has a compatible installation, managing updates etc.