RE: ok, I made a green screen with radio buttons (and I didn't even get a lousy T shirt)

I think I agree, even though this sort of thing is what keeps my interest
alive.  I couldn't imagine doing this if I didn't have new things to learn
even if it makes me feel like a fois gras goose sometimes.  

A friend of mine is a consultant who splits his time (60/60) between my
employer and another company.  He sees scores of AS/400 programmers
regularly.  When I showed him the radio button demo he was really excited,
but then he said "You know, there's a lot of people who couldn't care less
about this stuff."  He then proceeded to tell me about people he worked with
at his other client who had no interest in RPGIV or anything after v2r1 or
so.  Seems weird to me, but I guess not everyone who programs for a living
is interested in programming per se.


-----Original Message-----
From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.goddard.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:26 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: ok, I made a green screen with radio buttons



Pat, 

I'm not convinced it makes much difference though.  I did the application
and David posted it ( http://www.midrange.com/booth ).  There's been
interest, but only a dozen or so as near as I can tell.  A couple of people
that I've showed it to just sort of shrugged; it was a real ho-hum for them.
I'm not sure what that means but I'm thinking that there's not much interest
in new features in plain old RPG, RPGIV, and DDS.  Or it might mean that RPG
people don't really know what radio buttons are?  who knows... 




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