RE: Re: RE: SQL tools

I can see where you are coming from, Buck.  Most SEU RPG programmers think
WDSc is just the next buzzword (at least in my shop).  But now that some
have seen me using it and what it can do they are starting to soften up a
little bit.  It definitely takes patience to learn CODE or WDSc, but in the
end they will be better off, IMO.

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:58 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Re: RE: SQL tools


>The hard core green screen attics will not switch 
>over to the editor because it can do all these functions.  

I hate to agree in public, but I'm forced to.  Virtually every iSeries
programmer is automatically a 'hard core green screen addict' since they
overwhelmingly use SEU/PDM for all their coding needs.  An extremely
unscientific survey of those I've met in the past ten years tells me that
virtually nobody uses the SEU command line, and line commands outside of
C/D/B/A are exotic.

The point being that SEU users are very (no, extremely!) comfortable with
SIMPLE and PRIMITIVE.  If they wanted more features, they'd read the help on
SEU and use what limited function it has.  My logic may be flawed, of
course.  I don't personally think there's anything that can be done to
entice programmers comfortable with SEU over to a GUI editor, speed
included.
  --buck
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