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Dan Bale wrote:

-snip about AS/400 shops being stuck in the past-

>This discussion has made the rounds before.  Not 
>so much internal vs. external printer files, but the 
>antiquation issues.  Jeez, how I would love to take 
>advantage of some of the modern technologies the 
>AS/400 has to offer.  Where are the leading-edge 
>AS/400 shops?  They must be operating covertly 
>in the Detroit area.  I'm tired of carrying the banner, 
>trying to convince higher-ups to try new things.  
>"Don't have the budget for it", "Too high a learning 
>curve", "Have to train everybody", etc.

Dan,
Not too long ago, I felt exactly as you do now.  Rather than write one of my
typical rambling missives, let me ask you the questions I asked myself:
What's stopping YOU from being more modern?  What's stopping YOU from
implementing ideas from Bruce McConnell's book Code Complete?  I found that
my employer has no idea what my code looks like and could care less, as long
as it works.  I found that my co-workers are very, VERY happy to see working
examples of familiar RPG III programs converted to RPG IV.  Be the change
you want to see in your world.

I'm not picking on you - you stated the Modern vs Past argument the best, I
think.  My remarks are directed to anybody who is waiting for somebody else
to "bless" their efforts to move forward.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY

p.s.  You can easily use S/36 techniques to emulate a subfile in O specs.
You can also manipulate the 5250 datastream yourself with USRDFN formats.
Does adding more code to the RPG program make it easier to write, read or
modify?  Sometimes.  Usually not.

"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
   -- Aristotle
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