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Article #21Re: Certification courses Sydney Australia
From: Gary R. Schmidt
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:00
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:00
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Alan wrote:
> Computer Power Training Institute now became Interim a couple of years ago.
[SNIP]
Back in the 1980's I had the misfortune to have to interview
"programmers" who had been "trained" by CPG, and let loose on the world
(nowadays their resumes don't make it through the door)...
The major problem with them was the the CPG "trainers" had told them
that 'C' was a dialect of COBOL...
...and that there was no "real" difference between the various
programming languages...
...and that basic ops skills for OS/390 were all that was needed to
administer VMS, UNIX, MPE, AOS-VS, etecetera, systems...
The sad thing was that it wasn't the fault of the people who had payed
their money to CPG, they didn't know any better, I just felt like I
saying to them, "Well, CPG is the broker, and you are the brokee."
They always looked like a con to me, but a lot of good, reliable
mainframe operators had been there... But then, by the time I saw them
they'd been out in the real world from quite a few years...
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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