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  Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
  By: Nick Andre to Dumas Walker on Mon May 09 2022 11:08 am

NA> I kinda wished I studied Cobol or Fortran or mainframes or anything that
NA> the six-foot-tall-300-pound-bearded-wizards are retiring from, where they
NA> were paid all kinds of money and where there is apparently a HUGE demand
NA> that is not being filled by the millenial crowds.

Isn't there an epoch coming up in 2038 when UNIX time_t rolls over? Time to
dust off the consulting web site...

Old languages are interesting to re-discover. I'm setting up a DOS VM mostly
to play with Turbo Pascal, and I'm looking for a good FORTRAN environment (go
figure...)

Nowadays, you could emulate an old IBM system and write COBOL or RPG code on a
home system with more power than you'd have used back in the day.
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