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On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:07:04 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:
> Mostly, I designed, wrote, and maintained banking application software
> for a large Canadian bank, but in part of my career, I also wrote and
> maintained system-level code for some of the bank`s smaller mainframes.
>
> I worked primarily in S390 Assembler and COBOL, and was expected to have
> a working knowledge of any of the other languages that the bank used at
> the time.
>
> In the middle years of my career, I installed Slackware on a spare
> system, and used it for a number of pilot projects, including a
> mainframe "print to email" test solution, a bridge between a Novell
> Netware network and a TCP/IP network (part of a WfH support task),
> and an ODBC-based database query support for one of our internal
> applications.
Thank you so much for sharing about your career! I can tell that put your
heart into it. It is interesting that you wrote Assembler. And it is
neat that you found applications for Slackware.
> I`m sure that the programming path would have had as many challenges and
> rewards as the path you took. For the most part, we "work" in the fields
> that we enjoy working in.
That sounds like a good philosophy and probably true, although--lacking
the ability to do it over again and compare--it will remain a puzzle. I
try to live well, and I am thankful for the many opportunities I still
find to program. I get great satisfaction from writing code (mostly
bash). Perhaps it even does me some good, as I have written many useful
tools.
> Luck be with you, Joe
And also with you.
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