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  • Subject: RE: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"
  • From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:10:38 -0700

************  WARNING--Shameless self promotion follows
************************************
It's a shame if people try to protect themselves from learning new
languages.  Like Buck I had "un-male" SAT scores (english > math) and a
musical background.  I started programming for pay at age 46 after 13 years
of blue collar work preceded by a several years of "early retirement"
devoted to music and minimum wage jobs.  I get a big kick out of new
languages had hope never to stop learning them.  Some day I may even master
one.

As an aside, I think language ability can be a strong predictor of
programming ability.  My former supervisor was an  english teacher before
she became a programmer.  My "mentor," a friend of over 30 years with 20
years of programming experience, knows as much about grammar as my mom did
and considerably more than some of my daughter's high school english
teachers.  I was a history major and my best academic subjects in high
school were Latin and French.  If anyone had asked me about becoming a
programmer when I graduated from high school, I would have said "not a
chance."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro [mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 6:01 AM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"
> 
> 

**********************   Big Snip   **************************
> 
> For those reading this who are waffling about using RPG IV, 
> who think that
> it's too hard to "learn a new language", who find the new 
> terminology weird
> and disconcerting, I have one very convincing argument:  I 
> write in RPG IV
> and love it.  I started in 1978 in RPG II on the System/3.  I 
> am fluent in
> matching record, stacker select, sort specs and 80-80 lists. 
> I learnt to
> program by reading the S/3 RPG II reference manuals and 
> looking at compiler
> listings in the filing cabinet.  I am a high school graduate 
> (dropped out of
> college before my first semester finished.)  I am a musician 
> by temperament
> (classically trained viola.)  I had a miserable score on my 
> math SAT and a
> great one on my English.  I have absolutely no formal 
> computer training
> whatsoever.  By all respectable measurements, I should 
> probably not be a
> programmer at all.  If *I* can do it, literally anyone can.  
> Anyone.  Try
> it.  You'll like it!
> 
> Buck Calabro
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