RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

John,

One problem.  The JBA's of the world don't give a rat's ass about the people
who have to support and maintain the product.  After all, they don't sell it
to the programmers.  Heck, at that level, they don't even sell it to the MIS
department.  They sell it to the CEO's.

My gosh!  If management had any sense of the nightmares brought on by the
convoluted code in these million dollar packages...  Well, .... well, well,
they _still_ wouldn't give a damn.

So you want to start a "Mass mailing" to the worst 3rd party 
vendors?  IMH(but jaded)O, you'd be wasting your time.  Sorry
for being so blunt, but...

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: John P Carr [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 3:37 PM
To: RPG400-L
Subject: RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV


""but there  are some big-name software packages out there that are sticking
to their
70's roots. ""


Why not start a "Mass" mailing to the worst 3rd party vendors petitioning
them 
to use new RPGIV design paradigms??   

Maybe send them a sample of their own code,  and one written "Better"  
using RPGIV and sign it as concerned customers?

Raise the visibility of their  @#$%   code.    One of the hardest parts of 
trying to get shops to use RPGIV is the argument that they "Still" have to 
maintain  RPGIII vendor code.   

Tell the vendors that they are *NOT helping their customers with their 
products.

kinda vigilante I know,   but it's like trying to move a battleship with
these guys.

Well just a thought.
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