RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?

Interesting point you make there.  I make my opinions known here quite 
vocally, sometimes too much so.  I am not a "yes" man, I state the facts 
and that doesn't always earn brownie points until later down the road when 
I can say "I told you so".  We are currently using a mix and blend of 
RPGIII and RPGIV.  But every RPGIII program that is worked on gets 
converted over to RPGIV at the same time while in maintenance.  Offers a 
non-cost (or low cost) way of conversion because if a program needs to be 
worked on then it gets converted, if it's never worked on, then what's the 
point.  I'm trying to get everyone to go free format, but that won't 
happen I don't think until the /free is gone so the code "looks" nice.

Ron Power
Programmer
Information Services
City Of St. John's, NL
P.O. Box 908
St. John's, NL
A1C 5M2
Tel: 709-576-8132
Email: rpower@xxxxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.stjohns.ca/
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The problem is that *you* know how your house is built.  If your company's
decision makers really understand how iSeries/OS400 is "built" and the 
value
proposition behind it, they won't make a bad decision.  Of course, if
they're sitting on a foundation built on RPG-III (or -II), what's the
likelihood that they know the capability of the iSeries?

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / RPower@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:41 PM
>
> See I don't see that argument as being as valid as it sounds.
> That's like
> saying instead of repainting my house because I don't like the
> colors I'll
> rip down the walls and rebuild them so I can repaint them, only to find
> out that the walls aren't as sturdy as they used to be in the end.  The
> platform is by far one of the best I've seen.  I mean honestly,
> in my time
> on the iSeries I've never seen one "crash", although I've seen
> quite a few
> Windows based platforms crash, over and over.
>
> Ron Power

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