-=> Dream Master wrote to Digital Man <=-

 DM> I think the problem with everyone young and in IT, whether developers
 DM> or sysadmins, is no longer being "useful".  I spent too many years
 DM> hoarding knowledge forcing me to be the subject matter expert on many
 DM> areas.  This bit me in the ass and I lost out on early promotions.  We
 DM> learn and that's all that matters.

I went from being a technical jack-of-all-trades to managing small teams to 
managing large teams, and then, after a layoff, going back to being Jack 
again. I'm glad I had those technical skills (and kept most of them while I 
was a people manager) in order to adapt and keep working.

 > Ah, yeah, just a few. It was fun to get that old code compiling and working
 > again (post Y2K and all), using those old tools.

I missed the first part of this thread, but I downloaded Turbo Pascal and 
wanted to start playing with it again. Maybe some old-school ANSI C, too.

 DM>  I believe there are so many things we as developers and
 DM> sysadmins did in the 80s and 90s that we truly regret.  My favorites,
 DM> "This program won't be needed past the 90s" or "we should get rid of
 DM> all the COBOL and Fortran programs.  They cost too much."

Preach, brother. I remember when Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN came out with 
Numerical Recipes in C. It seemed like a lot more work for the same result, 
but you never saw a copy of Turbo FORTRAN at Egghead Software.   :)






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