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Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Sat Jan 11 15:27:21 CST 2014


Jim, I seem to recall similar remarks being made about COBOL back in the
day.  Funny how stuff sticks around when it's useful and the wheel is
really squeaky.

Charlotte


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi John:
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> That is a good point.
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> We are in a stage of computing where much of the PCs are being replaced
> with little more than dumb terminals...we have come from terminals in the
> 70s and earlier and now we are going back to them. These terminals (mobile
> devices) are maybe new but they are only dumb terminals with a pretty
> interface. Welcome back to our future.
>
> This means that most of the development jobs are going to the web and that
> trend is showing no signs of slowing and it most likely never will. The
> best you can do now is roll your own web servers and get your JavaScript
> skills up to par. ;-)
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> Jim
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