Re: vms versus solaris

From: Bill Gunshannon (bill_at_cs.uofs.edu)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: 18 Jan 2005 19:31:45 GMT

In article <FXL4huwjzfL0@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
        koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <3IudnYo-79LDqnHcRVn-3g@igs.net>, "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> writes:
>>
>> They get taught about 1.5 days of instruction in university about ISAM
>> theory, do 2 coding exercise assignments worth 6% of their term mark, and
>> that is....back to stream of bytes for the rest of their careers.
>
> I never hire anybody who can't learn on the job. And VMS is so easy
> to learn.

Matter of opinion. Experience here has been quite different. But then,
one has to wonder how much of that is "mother duck syndrome". I knew a
student from Marist in Poughkeepsie, NY who interned with my office at
West Point a number of years ago. Couldn't handle Primos, Exec-8 or
Unix. Couldn't understand how anyone could get anything done without
VM/CMS and APL. (No smiley, I am not joking!!!)

bill
  

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