Re: LANSA programmers

Interesting. What are the opportunities, here?

Hank

In a message dated 11/16/98 3:01:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
DAsmussen@aol.com writes:

<< Actually, _ALL_ CASE programmers are that scarce.  With the possible
exception
 of Synon (whose ranks _MIGHT_ encompass as many AS/400 developers as do all
 the other AS/400 CASE tools combined), CASE just never "took off" in _any_ of
 its many forms on _any_ platform.  CASE was too expensive to purchase,
 generated code that was too resource-intensive and, (due to the fact that it
 didn't take off) too specialized.  An RPG/CL/COBOL/FORTRAN/C/JAVA programmer
 can find work anywhere, can an AS/Set/Synon/Lansa/New World programmer say
the
 same?  No.  No CASE supplier _EVER_ provided a decent interface between
upper-
 and lower-CASE, which was the entire premise behind the paradigm in the first
 place.  The RAD (rapid application development) promise was never fulfilled
--
 you just wrote better programs than you would have in the same amount of time
 a 3GL would have taken.  Some applications are written with (now proprietary)
 CASE tools, but there just aren't that many CASE programmers out there. >>
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