re: VaRPG

["Chris Rehm" <Mr.AS400@xxxxxxx>]

>Someone just mentioned VisualAge RPG. What do you guys think of it?  

>I played around with it for a bit but couldn't get a client to turn on
>their AS/400 side so I never really got a good look at it.  But I wondered
>why I couldn't use it to write RPG code on a PC, to run against PC data
>files.  The graphics and the layout was really good to use and the samples
>seemed complete to me.  


I haven't played with it in a year, but I liked it. VA RPG made it easy to
code RPG applications for the PC. It made it easy for me to pick a
component and action, and code the routine I wanted run then. 

I have not played with anyone else's PC RPG builder. I had prior
experience with VA C++ and VA Smalltalk, so VisualAge was fairly easy.
However, the connections were different in VA RPG and less code generation
was done for me based on connections. It did exactly what I was looking
for, though, which was to eliminate the hassle of figuring out how to
program graphics and a GUI and let me stick with coding application pieces.

I never realized there was an "AS/400" side to the component. I thought it
simply used my router connection to the AS/400 to access AS/400 objects.
One pass through the tutorial showed how easy it was to get stuff done. 


Chris Rehm
Mr.AS400@ibm.net
You have to ask yourself, "How often can I afford to be unexpectedly out of 
business?" 
Get an AS/400.
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