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Colin,There may be, no doubt, individuals who meet your definition of legacy developers.
But another definition that may apply is trying to keep the applications running that run the business. Our primary business application is 36E using RPG II and OCL. However, all new applications/programs are, at least, written in RPG IV (free-format) using WDSc. The company, not the programmer (moi), made the business decision to not invest in a tool to convert the 36E to native. All of us work within constraints; many outside of our control. I didn't take your definition personally; just wanted to point out that it should not be taken as all inclusive or definitive.
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Colin Williams wrote:
We must remember that there are a lot of legacy developers out there. When I refer to legacy, i mean those guys that learnt RPG 10 or more years ago, dont want to learn anything more, and are only just getting to grips with RPGIV, never mind /free or eclipse/WSAD/WDSC etc. Those guys will never move away from SEU until they have no option.
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