Shawn Gordon wrote:
>
> On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 11:12 AM, Kyle Kelton wrote:
>
> > Given the announcement of the demise of the HP3000 (very unhappy), what
> > are the prevailing programming languages and databases in the UNIX
> > environment?
> >
> C and C++, then you can look at OO scripting languages like Python
> (which I personally love coming from a COBOL background).

Ok, why does Python appeal to you from a Cobol background?  I've
got 3 Cobol programmers to decide how much to retrain and how much
to use Cobol or what else to do.  They share between them the
major knowledge of our application systems that (now) need to be
migrated or rewriting.

Our target O.S. is RedHat Linux or maybe HPUX as a transition, and
database is PostgreSQL or HP Eloquence.  We do all already know basic
SQL and can more or less get around on Unix.

The others (1.5) of us know C and are learning Java (in addition
to other languages).

Richard
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