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From: WRT@CORNELLC.BITNET (Bill Turner, Cornell University Library)
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Subject: Programmers
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Date: 2 Feb 90 14:04:23 GMT
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In-Reply-To:  Message of Thu, 1 Feb 90 13:52:21 EST from <LIBSJT@INDST>

Yes, old-fashioned programming is rapidly becoming a lost art. Cornell once
taught a lot of mainframe programming, but what the Computer Science dept.
now considers a "mainframe" is a MicroVAX running UNIX. PL/I, COBOL, and
Assembler are all gone, replaced by Pascal and C running on the Vaxen or
micros.

The current environment is very interesting. New applications are being done
here mostly using Natural (Software AG's 4GL), but after they're done, the
response time is abysmal. NOTIS, on the other hand, is a major pain to work
on, but once it's going, it gives far superior response time...