Re: IBM pushing Java

["Bruce Odum" <bodum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once you start ILE you will never go back.  I think I would have a hard time
doing straight RPGIII now.  ILE's advantages are huge over regular RPG.   To
do the basics in ILE takes no time at all to learn.  The ability to use
API's is very important.  To start to learn it just convert some RPG
programs and start looking at it.  It will be worth your time.  We would
have never been able to create CGI programs to our web server or read and
write directly to files on the IFS if we never moved to ILE.  Cant live
without it.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Carr <74711.77@compuserve.com>
To: Midrange-L <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: IBM pushing Java


>
>
> RE: Re: IBM pushing Java
>
> >>John Carr <74711.77@compuserve.com> wrote:
> >>>If you're not using the new functions of the RPGIV language(built-in's
> >>>using API's,  Procedures, etc) and are still only using RPGIII
> >>>I for the life of me don't know why.   If you're an RPG person
>
>
> >I can tell you why I'm not.  We're an RPGIII shop.  All of our
> >applications are RPGIII.  None of the vendors have introduced RPGIV
> >into any of the applications we are currently supporting.  Our
> >management will not approve the use of RPGIV until they need to, and
> >at that time all of the RPG programmers will be trained in RPGIV.  I
> >cannot just start using RPGIV when no other programmers here have
> >?learned it, as it would raise maintenance concerns should someone else
> >need to go into the program to change or fix it later.  Now with Y2K
> >testing and the recent purchase of another hospital we'll need to
> >bring onto our systems, I doubt we'll be trying to tackle RPGIV this
> >year.  Believe me, I'd love to learn and use it if I could.
> >Terry Herrin
>
> ""Our management will not approve the use of RPGIV until they need to""
> Get the rest of the programmers to convince them that "They Need To"
>


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