RE: Visual RPG vs. Other Visual languages was ->RE: Is RPG available on any other platform ?

>Your comment about lack of ambition is just to insulting to respond to.
That is the only reason I have seen for people not learning when they are
perfectly capable.  They get comfortable where they are at and stop there.
If somebody wants to maintain RPG programs the rest of their life, more
power to them, but when they say they would love to learn something new but
don't, then that is lack of ambition.

>It takes at least 3 years of intensive and hard work with plenty of
experience.
I don't know where you are getting your numbers, but they seem a little
extensive.  I don't want to get into an argument on this, but it should NOT
take 3 years to get a productive RPG programmer.

>... but to be a worthwhile programmer in the business environment in less
then 3 years does not happen anywhere but in the mind of the self-important.

Well thanks for the compliment:-)

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@MartinVT.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:50 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Visual RPG vs. Other Visual languages was ->RE: Is RPG
available on any other platform ?




Learning a language well enough to use its benefits is not a matter of a few
hours time on a couple of weekends.    Of course anyone can crank out
their first "Hello World" program sooner but to be a worthwhile programmer
in the business environment in less then 3 years does not happen anywhere
but in the mind of the self-important.



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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:14:41 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: Visual RPG vs. Other Visual languages was ->RE: Is RPG available on
any other platform ?

..I can see your point of going to VARPG if your shop is entirely RPG
programmers with little ambition to learn a different language....

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