RE: IFS files and VARPG

Hi Larry,

I worked with Basic on PCs, eventually leading up to Visual Basic.  VB got
me used to the MS IDE.  Then I tried ASNAs product which looked 99% like
VB's IDE but had RPG code behind it.  _Then_ I saw VARPG and it was 90
degrees off from what I was used to, so I gave it a pass.  Perhaps if I had
gone from RPG-only to VARPG it might've made more sense.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
www.dowsoftware.com
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> 2) I write all my client code in java anyway. I tried VARPG. I
> liked it but
> I couldn't help but feel it was something like what RPG IV would
> be like in
> a parallel, rather naff, universe. It was familiar and yet weirdly
> different. When I tried it I found all of the examples (and there wasn't
> many at the time) were in fixed format with none of the newer built-in
> support for actions and attribute changes. In RPG I write free-form and
> never need to use subroutines, but VARPG was plagued with them. I mean, an
> "action subroutine" - how quaint. But at the end of the day, I just found
> java much easier - I assumed everything would be different in
> java so there
> was no surprises. VARPG was just, I don't know, it just felt a bit
> "rubbish". Stupid reason to not take to it, but there you are. :-)

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