RE: Re: New version of WDSC

I think that is because we are in the midst of drastic changes in how we
develop programs (entire industry I am talking here), and in an effort to
get the latest and greatest out to customers, some companies don't deem it
necessary to take the extra year to think through an entire software
package.  But then again how could they when they don't know what new
technology is going to change their software completely.  I think this new
way of doing things is par for the course, even though it isn't very nice to
anybody.  

I see the Eclipse IDE being a moving target for at least the next couple
years until it gets a set of API's that are fairly set in stone, but we
can't have WDSc wait until they have it set in stone to deliver us an IDE.

Just my opinion,
Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:33 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Re: New version of WDSC


This triggers what has been a growing concern for me. (This is not a shot 
at you, Mark, but a general comment on the industry.)

In the last 14 years that I've worked on AS/400, one thing considered 
crucial, and a very strong selling point, was backward compatibility. But I 
see the java (and maybe open source) world giving this less shrift than I 
think it should. Every release of Eclipse seems to require changes in how 
we are to work, from different arrangements of windows and menu options, to 
internal API calls. And the worst part of this is, we put up with this.

All the deprecated stuff in java will eventually not work at all. OTOH, the 
400 can probably compile an RPG I source member - I know it'll do an RPG II 
program.

JMHO

Vern

At 08:26 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
-snip-

>I think that most of us wouldn't
>mind the occasional "screw-up" slipping through if it meant quicker turn
>around on some of these problems.

-snip-


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