RE: "Real ILE" ( tangent from RPGIII compiler vs. Visual Basic)

Eric,

I'm lucky in that respect.  Our IT Director is very supportive.  In
fact, he gave myself and our senior programmer an official "goal" of
implementing ILE in our shop this year.  

The way he titled the goal was kind of funny, though.  
To quote: 

"Target: Implement OOP in our AS400 Programming Environment.
Results to be achieved: Develop class library of reusable modules,
Document, educate, and implement use of class library as a programming
standard."

He's been working with the web guys a lot lately I guess.  Funny, he was
a link/cobol programmer in his day.

Since none of us have really seen it done properly, I have a feeling
we'll be leaping forward with what little we know and probably learn a
lot of things the hard way.  It seems like there's a huge potential here
for making a big mess. ;->  

Greg


-----Original Message-----
date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:57:45 -0500
from: "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: "Real ILE" ( tangent from RPGIII compiler vs. Visual
        Basic)

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One thing about learning new stuff, is that once you see how to do it,
you
want to use it in your day to day work, but all too often it is not
allowed.
I bet you know what the number one excuse from management is....
"Nobody
else knows this stuff.  Nobody else wants to learn it.  Now go and
forget
all this crazy new stuff....."  To be fair, sometimes the adoption of
new
technology is not a good idea, and management is right in their
objection.
But to hobble a programmer's professional development on the grounds
that
"ILE is new" (what is it now, 11 years old?) is just sickening.  What to
do....

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