RE: RPGLE & RPG/400

Why wouldn't you want to teach programmers fresh out of college the
skills necessary to maintain your system?  I just recently graduated and
was taught RPG III and then immediately RPG IV by my previous employer.
I love the AS/400 and working with RPG.  
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> From:         Lisa Abney[SMTP:abney@iquest.net]
> Reply To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Friday, September 11, 1998 1:06 AM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: RPGLE & RPG/400
> 
> As I'm getting ready to teach RPGIV to my development team next week,
> I've
> been thinking about this question lately.  While Hans' response was a
> great
> list, I have one more to add.  
> 
> With the unfortuately large turnover in AS/400 shops, one of the
> things I
> hope will make our shop attractive to new employees is the fact that
> we are
> current with what IBM offers from a programming language standpoint.
> I
> certainly would not take a position at a shop who says "We're good at
> RPGIII - why learn anything new?"  As I've interviewed candidates over
> the
> past few months, I'm amazed at the number of programmers who have
> never
> even heard of RPGIV or ILE.  That, to me, is a "red flag"!  I don't
> have
> the expectation that they will all be experienced with RPGIV/ILE, but
> anyone who makes any effort to keep themselves current with the market
> at
> least knows what it is!
> 
> The developers I'm training have RPG experience ranging from 3 years
> to 23
> years, so I recognize it will not be an easy switch.  However, doing
> all
> our new development in a common language will be a great stride.  Many
> new
> programmers fresh out of school have never heard of the RPG cycle (as
> it
> should be!), and I certainly wouldn't want to teach them RPGII, RPGIII
> and
> RPGIV, just so they can maintain my system!     
> 
> 
> >Pavan Krishnamurthy wrote"
> >>What are the new features of RPGLE and What are the basic advantages
> &
> >>disadvantages of RPGLE over the other versions of RPG ?
> >
> 
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