Re: *** ADMIN: Ok, one more time, a POLL on www.midrange.com

>At 07:33 11/24/1998 , Buck Calabro wrote:
>>Many people I know feel that they don't have the time to
>>learn it.  In a "mixed" environment (legacy code side by
>>side with new development) there's a feeling that using
>>2 versions will be hard to maintain.
>
>It's soooooo much more productive than RPG3 though. It's amazing how just
the ability to have local variables simplifies developing code that does
complex processing. Then there's the prototyped calls and the eval op code
with it's free form syntax that can combine multiple nested operations, the
improved string handling, date support. I get really crabby when I have to
work in RPG3. Maintaining two versions of RPG isn't a problem. They're not
that different. Every once in a while, you have to look up the spelling of
an op code, but the differences should not be a factor.
>
At our shop we have 2 programmers.  I will convert code to RPGIV if I am
doing a modification or creating a new program.  However the other
programmer has the opinion that there is no sense in learning this since RPG
is going away,  IBM will not be doing any further enhancements, and the big
push is JAVA, so if we are going to do anything should we start
concentrating on JAVA?

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