On 6/14/2011 2:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:17:57 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be?
Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT
programs today will only have seen Windows / Unix / Linux and
they probably have a pre-disposition against the mainframe.
Which paraphrases to, "Having no point of reference, they
don't know any better."
-- gil
Well, maybe. Or, "they start out with minimal prejudices"
or "they don't have to unlearn habits that don't work"
or ...
:-)
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