RE: "RPG isn't cool"

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

  I completely agree with you.  In your opinion, how much longer does it
take to do the following in RPG IV as opposed to doing it in RPG400:  Add a
new subroutine (make a mod) and compile it.  My answer is that it takes
ZERO more time.  The only additional time it will take an RPG IV programmer
is the time to run CVTRPGSRC.  Even if they never ever did anything more
"advanced" in RPG IV than use long mixed-case field names they would be
ahead of the game!  The only people who whine about the "learning curve"
have simply never looked at it, and aren't motivated enough to run one
stinking little command to try it out!  

Buck Calabro
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."
    --Michel Montaigne
(my compliments to Dean for expanding my horizons!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt 
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 3:35 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: "RPG isn't cool"
> 
> I disagree with the perception that these people are all so busy.  We've
> several people 
> that work in IS an average of 40-42 hours a week.  None, except me, would
> take the time to 
> take the ATS course on ILE.  However when we set up a class for them they
> ate it up and 
> are using it.  I think that many people are not self motivated.
> 
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