Re: Reasons for using RPGIV

here is an off the wall question...

What do you think the standards are at JDE?
Do they eat their own dog food?

-gerald



On 4/15/2011 10:05 AM, sjl wrote:

Dennis -

As I alluded in my original post, this is basically an argument with

one

person - a /new/ developer in our shop who once worked for JDE, and

who is

of the opinion that there is no need to use anything but RPG/400 to

write

code...

On the other hand, there are at least 10 other developers here that

disagree

with her philosophy, and since we already have a substantial amount

of

existing RPGIV code mixed in with OPM code in the shop, I don't think

she

will be able to muster much support for her position.

In fact, I don't even know why she is pushing so hard when her

argument is

clearly untenable.

- sjl


Dennis wrote:
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.

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