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A friend of mine wrote in MUMPS, banking terminal applications. greenscreens, that kind of stuff. He hated it, but he told me then it was a job for life, he got
by mdekkers 10y ago
A friend of mine wrote in MUMPS, banking terminal applications. greenscreens, that kind of stuff. He hated it, but he told me then it was a job for life, he got paid well (not many people with those skills) and didn't really have a lot in the way of stress....
- tluyben2 10y agoI used to do a lot of work in dBase & Clipper and because of that I got projects in other 'language integrated databases'(?) like DataEase, MUMPS, Cache as well as Access, Foxpro and Informix. Besides Access (I guess?) these are mostly jobs for life without stress. I still get requests and it has been 15-20 years since I touched most of those.
- Spooky23 10y agoVery true. I got a pretty persistent request to work on an informix 4gl system for a ridiculous rate. Haven't touched the stuff in years.
- int_19h 10y agoHow many FoxPro jobs are still around?
- tluyben2 10y agoNot sure, but many. These are usually not very well advertised in my experience as the people who still can do this are known and/or advertise themselves to wanting to do that work.
- macintux 10y agoMy retirement plan of maintaining old Perl code doesn't look as viable as it used to, perhaps time to learn MUMPS.
- tacostakohashi 10y agoThe problem with this retirement plan isn't that it's not viable (it is), it's that you're guaranteed to be working exclusively with mismanaged and incompetent organisations and people. That gets depressing fast.
- Spooky23 10y agoCOBOL is much easier. You can easily clear $125/hr or more if you know anything at all about old school non-IBM mainframes. Most COBOL is cut and paste. One guy I know basically reads books and updates some report, where update means enter the next month and year combination into some code, entering a change request, and go to a change meeting. He's basically working for 3 years until his wife can retire, then building a lake house.
- arfrank 10y agoIt's core to one of the leader's in banking core's new cloud based offerings: https://www.fisglobal.com/Solutions/Banking-and-Wealth/Services/Database-Engine https://www.fisglobal.com/Solutions/Banking-and-Wealth/Servi...