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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: net.views - mainframe programmers in an open systems world
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:10:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <BxrDxF.Izy@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Nov03.145701.22033@utoday.com> <1992Nov4.173720.22157@tandem.com>
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- In article <1992Nov4.173720.22157@tandem.com> Don Nelson <nelson_don@comm.tandem.com> writes:
- > I'm having a little trouble understanding the question. Perhaps you
- > could explain in 25 words or less why mainframe programmers differ from
- > programmers in "the open world" (which is definitely not as open as some
- > people think).
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- Mainframe programmers are used to working in sweatshop conditions, and will
- eat the lunch of us little hothouse roses unless we quit playing around on
- netnews and start taking end-users seriously.
-
- Seriously.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- `-_-' "Meg÷lelted mßr ma a farkasodat ?"
- 'U` "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
- Das kann nicht mein Zimmer sein, denn ich atme kein Ammoniak.
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