RE: RPG - I'm not dead yet!

I agree, we do sort of have a mess - but

For me, from the beginning 37 years ago, business came first. With whatever
tools exist, (for me those tools have almost always been a flavor of RPG),
you make sure you know what the customer wants, you get the job done
efficiently and you go on to the next task.

Much of my work for the last 31 years has been writing, maintaining and
enhancing 1 ERP system. The job consists of fact finding, preliminary
database/program design, agreement, code/test/implement, find the 5% we
missed, code/test/implement that, go on to the next project. Only about 5%
of that is thinking about the best possible technical implementation.

I think we all know that this concept needs to be expanded to handle the
daunting tasks of multiple user interfaces in the future, and in large
companies with many programmers we need some real tech heavies, but for me
we are business problem solvers first and programmers second.

Jim Horn

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message: 5
date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:08:35 +0000
from: "Schmidt, Mihael" <Mihael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: RPG - I'm not dead yet!

<quote>
Besides, if you are a programmer you are a TECHNICAL person first, business
second.
Yes, second.
Thats your job, computers, programming, yes?
Thats technical, first.
</quote>
IMO that is a fact that every programmer working on an IBM i platform should
be able to agree on.

<quote>
We have enough business types making excel macros.
Then we have business types making RPG programs.
Thats why we have a big mess.
</quote>
That is the sad reality I have lived through the last couple of years.

My 2 cents

Mihael