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The electric keyboard could make people less comfortable with SEU.  Short of
that or a secret exit program that shuffles the records in the source file,
I've got to agree.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:58 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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