RE: Green screen to GUI

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Find people that can code in it?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI
> From: "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, September 22, 2005 10:42 am
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I agree with your main thrust, but am unsure what you can do with other
> Windows languages that you can not do with VARPG? 
>  
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> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
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> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: 09/22/05 01:45:29
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI
>  
> > > It runs on the workstation.  You are correct of course, as
> > always.  But with
> > > rare exceptions, what iSeries workstation today is not Windows?
> >
> we are are running some desktops with linux here (debian) and are using
> tn5250. worked out very good.
>  
> > For the vast majority of Windows programmers, it doesn't make
> > sense to
> > learn RPG. They're already familiar with languages like C++,
> > or VB. Or if
> > they're more modern, they're working in languages like C# and
> > Java.  Why
> > would they want to convert to RPG?
>  
> i fully agree with this. it simply doesn't make sense to switch to a
> tool/language which can't do half the stuff you allready can do with the
> tools/languages you have or know.
>  
> i'm mostly programming java and for me VARPG is no option. too limited. the
> user knows what he can expect from a gui application because the see things
> in other products. and with VARPG you just can't do it. so why would i want
> to switch to VARPG. and i don't think that authorization and deployment is
> so easy. at our site we have hundreds of clients/users local and remote and
> i don't see a simple strategy for deployment. web applications are so more
> simpler to deploy.
>  
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