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Large organizations still rely on ageing IT systems and programming languages to run their mainframes. But as traditional developers reach retirement age, new hires are reluctant to pick up old skills. Who wouldn't want to spend the next 50 years updating 50 year-old code?
"Assembly language or 'assembler' is still used by 66% of large enterprises" <- That has to be for small scale speed-ups? Please? 
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Well, if they are willing to (a) retrain me, and (b) pay me a sufficiently munificent salary, I'd be willing to do it for the next 10 years. 
It's all a function of how much they are willing to pay. If companies would pay COBOL developers double what C++ developers are paid, I'm certain that you'd find plenty of developers learning COBOL.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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How dare you bring economics and logic to a whiny rant! I protest, sir. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Assembly language or 'assembler' is still used by 66% of large enterprises
Embedded. Writing bootloaders for systems with 6 KB of RAM and 128k of flash (or *less*), managing the boot process of various ECUs, enabling particular test modes (i.e. ECC RAM exceptions) for self test, improving performances for real time processes with 125 microseconds cycle time... and I work in embedded only since mid 2019, there's much I still have to see.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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As I stare at a FORTRAN code base I support.
When I started consulting I was stunned by the amount of legacy code in play. One customer I support was acquired by a much large company. The larger company had been doing this all over the world. They now have multiple manufacturing systems written in the late 70s and early 80s. Mostly FORTRAN.
They'd love to be able to re-do it, but the management refuses to listen to the factory people about how the old systems are used. So, the "solutions" keep failing. If they would just take an incremental approach and come up with a plan for slowly introducing the new systems, they might have a chance. But the legacy code base is entrenched.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Company still hasn't revealed the cause of this serious security lapse. At least we can be confident no one has corrupted their malware?
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Many business leaders see IT as a utility, rather than a business enabler. Often = 99% +/- 1%
(OK, only 72%, but I think they're being generous)
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They don't even see it as a utility, but as a cost center.
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As Amazon's break-neck growth continues, the company's humanity is dwindling down to nothing. People who fired that employee also fired these employees
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Technically, algorithms determine all layoffs/firings.
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<squint>Yeah... technically, sure. Seems a little pedantic, though. 
TTFN - Kent
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New headline: Amazon is now letting pedants choose who to fire
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"Alexa, screw twenty percent of my workforce out of a job. I'm feeling generous today."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the company's humanity is...
Company what?
Am I the only one realizing what an oximoron is that?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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My running joke for the past 40 years is if I can just get past HR and talk to an engineer....
And we say, "bye bye HR!"
Listen to me young ones - build thy network early and refresh it often.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Big Blue claims it is the first to demonstrate quantum advantage in a real-life experiment, instead of merely theorizing the milestone. Time to port all your programs to a quantum machine then
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Still too risky. The cat is sick.
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A new analysis checks the water available in different planets' atmospheres. Who would have thought a planet with sulphuric acid clouds, 462C temperature, and excessive pressure might not support life?
OK, yeah, there was that story that "maybe in the upper atmosphere". Fine. I still think you should just try to enjoy the one Earth-like planet we know about.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I still think you should just try to enjoy the one Earth-like planet we know about.
You must not have billions of dollars burning a hole in your pocket, and nobody you deem worthy of sharing it with.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I still think you should just try to enjoy the one Earth-like planet we know about.
In order to be able to enjoy it for a long time, we should learn first to take care of it 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In this post I start by describing conditional compilation using pre-processor directives like #if, and then introduce the [Conditional] attribute, and describe how it differs to using #if. Maybe?
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Today, I want to share practical tips that will set you up for success as you plan for Windows 11 in your organization. Duck, and cover
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Quote: Planning for Windows 11: best practices for organizations
#1 Do not install it?
#2 Pay attention it doesn't come as an harmless update
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A total of 756 million users of LinkedIn have had their data compromised and similar to the April headlines, a hacker was able to grab user details such as email address, phone numbers, company information, full names, LinkedIn IDs, genders and links to 3rd party social media accounts. Data posted to internet available on the internet
But now some hacker will know my gender!
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