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  • Subject: Re: What is an AS/400?
  • From: DAsmussen@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 23:56:50 EDT

Jon,

In a message dated 8/8/00 6:47:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jon.Paris@hal.it 
writes:

> At the risk of being branded an "old fogey" (it wouldn't be the first time
>  but mostly it's because I support RPG), I'd hate to recommend the genX site
>  to anyone right now.  It is a wonderful example of what can be done with
>  RPG, but surely there are better references than a site where the
>  discussions rarely rise above the level of "you don't agree with me
>  therefore you're an idiot". (Note for those who haven't yet visited - the
>  words used on the site are rarely as polite as "idiot"!)
>  
>  As an advocate of "keep it RPG unless there's a real-world reason to
>  change" I keep visiting hoping that something interesting will be said.
>  Sadly even those discussions with promise end real quickly because anyone
>  with an opposing view is just insulted and shouted down.

Your advocacy is certainly the correct business view; however, your mention 
of the "GenX" site is most intriguing.  What's the URL?  Certain of us can 
shout with the best of them ;-)...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"May you live in interesting times." -- Chinese Curse
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