Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see the same thing, excpet it seems to always be "at the edges".  The 
bread & butter stuff works, the fancier stuff takes some getting used to.

Pat Barber wrote:
> Based on your message traffic, most of what you deal with
> is either broke or going to be broke, so finding an error
> in SEU is certainly within the scope of what you do.
>
> My point was, that using a shoddy product to develop programs
> is not acceptable to me. I see way too much traffic on
> how wonderful WDSc could be if you could just keep it running.
>
> That traffic has been going on for a number of years at this
> point.
>
> If you find it acceptable, press on with your development
> using all these wonderful, "modern" tools, but please don't
> point out to me how outdated I have been in using a tool that
> works.
>
>
>
>
> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > We've had this argument before.  Even if you got the MCH errors, etc that 
> > I've received with SEU you probably wouldn't even change.
> >
> > Then we get into the really esoteric argument in the difference between 
> > broke and featureless.  There are so many things lacking in SEU that are 
> > built in to WDSC that I call SEU broke.  At most, others may grudgingly 
> > admit that SEU lacks a few features.