Re: [Hardhats-members] MDC Revival

[Greg Kreis]

I will have to remember this when I teach my next batch of M students.  I'll tell them one of my former students said he could do it in his sleep....  ;-) Nancy Anthracite wrote: Gee Greg, seems it was so easy you could do it in your sleep. SOOO, what is the problem? ;-) On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:36 am, Greg Woodhouse wrote: What bothers me about this argument is that I believe any competent programmer ought to be able to pick up a new language if the need arises. (The first time I ever heard of MUMPS was in my initial job interview!) Okay, to be honest learning MUMPS wasn't that easy: I was taking Greg Kreis' MUMPS class and struggling with a homework assignment. One night, I went home and had a dream in which I saw the source code in front of me. I went in the next morning, typed it in and it ran perfectly! Learning a language does involve some struggle bedfore the "Aha!" moment comes, but it does come. --- steven mcphelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RE: [Hardhats-members] MDC RevivalI believe Cameron's statement about the VA management not being able to back off of migrating to a newer platform is probably very close to the truth. However, I am sure that there were some real business management decisions made (or at least I hope so). I saw an article recently that estimated that 40-50% of the current VA IT staff will be retiring in the next 5 years. If I was a manager of VA IT I would be very concerned about that. I would seriously consider moving my technology to a platform that enables me to recruit competent IT staff without having to rely on in-house training for the next generation of VA IT support. I would even consider technology that is inferior to my current technology as long as the new technology meets my needs and gives me greater flexibilty in personnel matters or provide me the opportunity to competitively outsource some IT functions. ===== A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. --Benjamin Disraeli ==== Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members