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  • Subject: RE: RPG - conversion vs re-write
  • From: "Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 10:46:00 +0600

Booth Martin (boothm@earth.goddard.edu) wrote:

>This post may sound simplistic, but the value of RPG is that it can be done
by
>mere mortals.  I am becoming terrified that I, as an ordinary RPG programmer,
>am becoming as irrelevant as WSU.

Booth, this quite natural anxiety is coming through in a number of your
posts and I think you're worrying unnecessarily. As Dean has often
pointed out not everyone makes a good programmer. In fact they're rather
rare in the general population, and they're all mortals. I'm with Dean
100% on this one. A good programmer is a good programmer is a good
programmer. A new language looks alien at first but you soon get used to
it. I've never known a case of a competent programmer making a serious
attempt to switch to a new programming language and failing.

There's not really any such animal as an RPG programmer. He or she is
just a programmer who happens to work in RPG. If you're doing OK in
RPG/III you'll do just as well with RPG/IV, including mastering the new
strange looking functions.

Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan
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e-mail:  kahn@tengizchevroil.com    (until September 30th)
         dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk  (from  October 1st)
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