RE: Time to get serious

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

That "Ryan Programs Great"? Well..thanks Bruce...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Time to get serious
> From: "Bruce Barrett" <bruce.barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, February 25, 2005 1:49 pm
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This should be part of the ad campaign. 
> 
> Bruce Barrett
> 
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> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:36 AM
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> Subject: RE: Time to get serious
> 
> Well...we all know that RPG stands for "Ryan Programs Great", but that's
> a different thread...
> 
> I've coded in RPG for 20+ years and it's by far my favorite language. I
> think a big problem, ourtside the iSeries space and regretably inside
> also, is that when people think of RPG, they think of 14 indicators
> conditioning a MOVE operation. We on this list know that that's not
> true, but way too many people don't realize that one can do anything in
> RPG that they can do in any other language.
> 
> I know slews of RPG programmers that don't use extended Factor 2 for
> crying out loud, much less free format, ILE, functions, WDSC, etc.
> 
> I'm happy to say that RPG does everything I need it to do in terms of
> business data processing. 
> 
> 
> 
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