tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7848560.post110245552043395320..comments2023-09-20T06:23:01.764-04:00Comments on Unresolved References: Twenty-five Years of ProgrammingTom P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05638283790763940692noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7848560.post-1102532533171080312004-12-08T14:02:00.000-05:002004-12-08T14:02:00.000-05:00http://www.multicians.org/thvv/
Here's the link to...http://www.multicians.org/thvv/<br />Here's the link to Tom Van Vlenk's pages in case it's difficult to find amongst my rattling.Some of the terms are scaringly familiar to me : VTOC,EBCIDIC though I think I'd have had several degrees of separation than the level of familiarity he had. <br />He co-invented the ancestor of the modern e-mail and now works with Java. You can't keep a good software engineer down.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16343928397661321993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7848560.post-1102523775981040242004-12-08T11:36:00.000-05:002004-12-08T11:36:00.000-05:00I've got news for you, pal. The "commoditization" ...I've got news for you, pal. The "commoditization" of work is taking place everywhere; you just talked about it at Dell. I can't believe what's happened to the career path I had set before me, I wouldn't take those jobs now for twice what they were paying, and they're paying less now. From the Wal-Mart strong-arming of suppliers to the fact that, as someone who works 100 yards away from an x-ray machine in a hospital, I have to travel 5 miles to a different company to get scanned. We have personally embraced the compartmentalization of goods and services by price point rather than service or even location, driving to Costco for this, Rite-Aid for that, grocery store for this, taking our cues from the giants of industry.<br />Wow, I guess you hit one of my last nerves.<br />I'm just saying, lol.Jeffrey Goblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00965511739492397318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7848560.post-1102516177119381172004-12-08T09:29:00.000-05:002004-12-08T09:29:00.000-05:00I think you'll like Tom Van Vleck's trip down IT m...I think you'll like Tom Van Vleck's trip down IT memory lane on his blog. See my last post. What's the new IBM z series but the reinvented 370s. And there are still COBOL programmers starting their careers on the 370 mainframe. I met some two years ago ; they are probably starting to retrain to the z-series. Here's to another 25 years in IT. You know you love it.<br /><br />I think I'll go and chew Map's bog for a while.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16343928397661321993noreply@blogger.com