From: lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca   
      
   On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:02:26 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:57:51 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:   
   >   
   >> More than comfortable :-) I'm a retired programmer with plenty of time   
   >> and an insatiable curiosity :-)   
   >   
   > Cool!   
   >   
   > What sort of programming did you do?   
      
   Mostly, I designed, wrote, and maintained banking application software   
   for a large Canadian bank, but in part of my career, I also wrote and   
   maintained system-level code for some of the bank's smaller mainframes.   
      
   I worked primarily in S390 Assembler and COBOL, and was expected to have   
   a working knowledge of any of the other languages that the bank used   
   at the time.   
      
   In the middle years of my career, I installed Slackware on a spare   
   system, and used it for a number of pilot projects, including a   
   mainframe "print to email" test solution, a bridge between a Novell   
   Netware network and a TCP/IP network (part of a WfH support task),   
   and an ODBC-based database query support for one of our internal   
   applications.   
      
   > I wonder sometimes what a career in programming would have been like.   
      
   I'm sure that the programming path would have had as many challenges   
   and rewards as the path you took. For the most part, we "work" in the   
   fields that we enjoy working in.   
      
   Luck be with you, Joe   
   --   
   Lew Pitcher   
   "In Skills We Trust"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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