On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Babette Turner-Underwood wrote:
> As far as staff and skills, the current job market > has an excess of persons with PL/SQL skills. > So I don't think the decisions was made with any > respect to how many people will be able to maintain > this over the next 10 years. The number of people > with COBOL skills is declining at the organization. > But if they keep doing new development in COBOL, > then maybe they will be able to convince the younger > programmers to learn it :-P Only if the younger programmers are in their fifties. COBOL is a maintainance programmers language. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alex INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).