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  3. June 2006

Re: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries



I started my career at a place that grew their own RPG programmers.
They hired kids straight out of college, screened them with a logic
test, and gave them a couple weeks on the ATS training tapes.  Of course
they had a staff of 20-40 seasoned veterans with one to three years
experience.  Also it was back in the days of the System 38 and the
fill-in-the-blanks programming of RPG III.

You probably can't really do this in a shop with one or two iSeries
programmers.  I suppose that's the point though. <snip>
This is sillyness!! If your shop is willing to or has already moved to the Modern RPG ILE language and it's free form syntax you're golden. Programmers fresh out of college will eat this up! I graduated 25 years ago knowing LISP, PASCAL, COBOL, BASIC and FORTRAN. I learned RPG II in a couple weeks. RPG II is Nothing and I repeat NOTHING like today's RPG ILE. Today's RPG ILE is so close to the BASIC and FORTRAN and PASCAL that I knew it's amazing.
Here's the rub, If you stay in RPG/400 land then YES it will be harder to find and train programmers, especially programmers who are productive and want to hang around. Move to ILE though and much of that problem just goes away. Use a modern language on a modern machine! 

- L

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