Re^2: "Yellow Pages"

[Old_Gray_Bear]

I must disagree. One of my contracts last year was writing new code in IBM System 370 Assembler, a language I learned almost forty years ago. The interface documents I worked from were "copyright IBM Corp., 1960". I got the contract because I did remember the difference between a BALR instruction and BASR....

"The more Things change, the more Things stay the same"? Not quite -- But I did use a fifty year old language and a thirty year old Debugger to implement an Agile based Test Oriented Development Process and delivered a subroutine library that plugs into an IPv6 enabled Network Monitor on hardware the Gene Amdahl would have felt comfortable with...

"Those who forget History are doomed to repeat it" -- Santayana

[zentara]

Well I hope you are right; as I would love it if Tk and Perl5 was still going strong 40 years from now, and all my postings were studied for useful techniques. Just somehow I doubt it. :-)