Re: Reasons for using RPGIV

I haven't been following this thread as closely as I might have, but I don't think the original poster has chimed in about reasons for this pushback.

Though I am loathe to support such pushback, I have seen situations where it may seem to make sense. In particular, a programming farm on the Asian continent does all the programming work for a particular set of pharmaceutical companies. These people know RPG/400 to some extent, and ILE not at all. The company has a position that introoduction of ILE to that source set introduces a wealth of support issues. Instantly, the set of individuals who can support a particular change is reduced until training occurs - and this particular organization has no desire to retrain. They are able to retain their staff and keep things interesting by double-teaming their responsibilities. While Roji may be on the PHP and RPG team, Koko may be on the Java and RPG team.

"David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

DeLong, Eric wrote:

Ask her to write in RPGIII a web based UI for her applications...
You do yours in RPGIV with CGIDEV2... First one done wins!

If she doesn't like the WEB UI approach, then challenge her to
something REALLY easy like writing data to a streamfile, or reading
data directly out of a network shared folder...

IMO: If she's resisting RPG IV, then there's no way in the world she
would embrace stream files or a web ui.

Also IMO: It is a software developers _JOB_ to learn new techniques &
technologies. There is no other way to advance the companies systems
than to move them forward. Anyone who is unwilling (or unable) to
learn new concepts should be respectfully shown the door.

david


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