RE: Coloring the RPG code

Scott, you have a refreshing bad attitude!  As a former die-hard SEU user
and recent convert to CODE/400 (although using it over a WAN is vexing), I
think you would find CODE/400 more productive than SEU.  Shutting the door
on CODE/400 because of Windows doesn't seem to be a logical decision, even
considering Windows!  Have you considered a CODE/400-only desktop :)?

CODE/400 is faster from a keyboard standpoint (there's no iSeries activity
to contend with); it's nice to be able to start a new line by pressing ENTER
anywhere in the line; ALT+S; ALT+J; program verify (after the first time,
anyway); LIST function; multiple views of the same source; > 2 sessions
open; better block move/copy capabilities.  Having sung the praises of
CODE/400, however, I'm quick to point out I still use SDA heavily
(exclusively?) and find SEU to be quicker for a quick change.  But for
cranking out high volumes of new non-DDS code (especially via cutting and
pasting), CODE/400 is a good tool and >> than SEU.

Quite a lot of productivity is a function of how you've organized your
existing code and if you take a strategic view of coding.  That's what
scares you co-workers!

The IBM animation won't be Clipit or an hourglass; it will be a little
steam-engine style governor or a pair of hands squeezing a throat (a la
Homer Simpson disciplining Bart).

Based on the original 5250 terminals, it seems like SEU *was* designed for
dinosaurs...
Yes, I'm also one of these dinosaurs.

I have no interest in using CODE/400, because I have no interest in
running Windows on my desktop.   I find it very hard to believe that any
editor would make me significantly more productive than I am in SEU, I can
bang out code at rates that have alarmed some of my coworkers :)

When IBM makes Code/400 for FreeBSD, I'll give it a try.  Until then, I'll
probably be running SEU.  (Unless, of course, someone makes an RPG syntax
checker for vi or emacs)

IBM's continued talk about their commitment to Linux whilst doing their
damnedest to try to FORCE ME to run Windows is absurd.  Next thing you
know, the AS/400 is going to require Microsoft Office, and all editing
will be done in Word.  I find that I dream of the day when an animated
paper clip can give me tips on RPG programming.



On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Joe Pluta wrote:
> >
> > Wasted an hour last week trying to fix one guys problem because
> > the dinosaur wants to use SEU.  When I pulled it up in Code/400
> > the fact that it was a comment stuck out quite robustly
>
> Is it just me, or is this patently offensive?
>
> You need help seeing an asterisk in position 7, yet someone who is
> comfortable in SEU is a dinosaur?
>
> I guess many of my clients are positively Precambrian.
>
> Yeeps.

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