Originally posted by TheOmegaMan
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Previously on "Has anybody ever listed NOTEPAD as a skill on their CV?"
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I have themacs on my thCV cos I am thwell-hard. It make me thwell-hard just thinking about it.
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Originally posted by Cowboy BobSounds like a good approach, until .NET becomes last years thing. Do you have the underlying knowledge to transfer to another market segment?
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Originally posted by DimPrawnI meant £10K per week.
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Originally posted by darmstadtI'll stick with my MVS stuff and bill 15k a month and expenses, kerrr....fecking....ching!
KERRRRRRRR ****KKKKKINNNNGGGGGGGG CHHHHHHHHINNNNGGGGGG!!!!!
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Originally posted by DimPrawnSounds like a load of spazzy nonesense to me. I'll stick to knowing nothing, dragging and dropping the odd thing in BizTalk and billing £10K a month. Kerrrr ching!
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Originally posted by DimPrawnSounds like a load of spazzy nonesense to me. I'll stick to knowing nothing, dragging and dropping the odd thing in BizTalk and billing £10K a month. Kerrrr ching!
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Originally posted by bogeymanAmen to that!
As a former MVS sysprog (last worked as such in 1996), I know full-well that you had to know a shed load of stuff and really understand it.
No Googling back then boys! No way of winging it with an O'Reilly Nutshell book on your lap.
You had to know S/3x0 Assembler, JCL, all the odd bits of syntax for parmlib and JES init, as well as the run-of-the mill COBOL, PL/I. REXX, CLIST etc.
Not to mention VSAM, VTAM, NCP, CICS, DB2, IMS and a ton of other acronyms, whos technical details would blow the minds of the .NETers around here.
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Originally posted by wc2Good old vi (NOT)
Whenever I needed to edit something I used the following method
FTP
Notepad
FTP
Needless to say they kicked him out after a couple of days ..
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Originally posted by darmstadtBut we don't need to put any of this stuff on our CVs as we're expected to know it. Mainframers are professionals
As a former MVS sysprog (last worked as such in 1996), I know full-well that you had to know a shed load of stuff and really understand it.
No Googling back then boys! No way of winging it with an O'Reilly Nutshell book on your lap.
You had to know S/3x0 Assembler, JCL, all the odd bits of syntax for parmlib and JES init, as well as the run-of-the mill COBOL, PL/I. REXX, CLIST etc.
Not to mention VSAM, VTAM, NCP, CICS, DB2, IMS and a ton of other acronyms, whos technical details would blow the minds of the .NETers around here.
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Originally posted by SpacecadetI used to work with a guy who had been in IT so long that when he first started he didn't even have a PC, code was written by hand then passed to engineers who made the cards to feed in to the machine. They would then give you the results back.
PS I have SPFLite open on my desktop right now. "X ALL;F ALL ...." can't be beaten.Last edited by expat; 14 February 2007, 14:32.
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Anyone with any sense would use notepad in preference to those, more trouble than they are worth. I would call it hard-coding because I am HARD. Oo you lookin at?
Shut up space-cadet. Ah! the old Elliot 405. Turn computer on, 40 minutes feeding the operating system in on tape then 20 minutes feeding the ALGOL compiler in on tape. We were real men in those days.Last edited by xoggoth; 14 February 2007, 12:49.
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