Re: George Farr declares feature specificpricingonhorizonfor WDSC

[Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

> If IBM can produce something that is
> good enough, there will be many
> that will pay for it.

You said a mouthful.

WDSC is not what RPG programmers want.  They are casting that vote every 
day.  I was in one place where I was the sole Code/400 user out of 50+ 
RPG programmers.  RPG developers are far and away the largest group of 
System i developers.

RPG developers _might_ be interested in a GUI version of PDM that looks 
like PDM, is as fast as PDM and maybe is extendable beyond PDM.  RPG 
developers want a GUI editor that's as fast as SEU, as easy to use as 
SEU and is perhaps extendable beyond SEU.  I personally think that 
Code/400 was closer to that mark than WDSC is, but Code is dead and I 
have to get over that.  I recognise the issues the Lab has had to go 
through to warp a stream oriented IDE for use with a record oriented 
platform and I applaud them for their effort.

Yeah, if IBM policymakers let the Lab develop a GUI screen designer that 
RPG programmers will scream for, I'll pay extra for it.  Not when.  If.