RE: *** ADMIN: Ok, one more time, a POLL on www.midrange.com

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> From: wawrzaszek@austeel.com [SMTP:wawrzaszek@austeel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 10:27 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: *** ADMIN: Ok, one more time, a POLL on www.midrange.com
> 
> At our shop we have 2 programmers.  I will convert code to RPGIV if I am
> doing a modification or creating a new program.  However the other
> programmer has the opinion that there is no sense in learning this since
> RPG
> is going away,  IBM will not be doing any further enhancements, and the
> big
> push is JAVA, so if we are going to do anything should we start
> concentrating on JAVA?
> 
        [And Brad Said:]  This is about as intelligent as people who think
the Y2K bug will stop elevators from working.  I mean, no wonder elevators
are so slow, they have to do all that date checking when they are moving!!!
<BG>  Java will have it's place, but it will not replace anything.  Not
until they add "the cycle" to it at least...;)

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com

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