On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 8:34 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
> > While it's certainly not impossible, it's certainly very difficult to > retrain a > > HLASM programmer to Java, Python, Javascript etc. It's not because > > they're not smart enough, they just don't want to. > > I've always expected programmers to learn new languages as needed, and for > me it's recreation, at least if the new language is halfway decent. During > the last half century at least 70% of my colleagues have been willing to > learn new things. > I have a useful knowledge of PERL, Python, BASH scripting, Java, and C/C++. I do need to look things up when writing in them mainly because I'm not as interested anymore. I'm lazily reading about RUST right now. -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
