Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxx>]

boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:
 
> I'd just like to comment on one of your points, Jon.  Sure,
> if there is a need for something, someone will offer it for
> sale, but look at CPAN.  Of that 600MB of Perl code, none of
> it was written for financial gain.  I look at CPAN, and
> wonder, why isn't there a CRAN chock full of 600MB of RPG
> code?  Am I just being too idealistic?

Here's one opinion (and I don't even know if it's mine).  Maybe we
AS/400 people are too pragmatic.  We like programming, but we're
business people first and programmers second.  Maybe the Unix/Perl/C++
people are programmers first and foremost.  They will do something in
programming just to see if it can be done.  They will spend half their
evenings regularly just 'hacking' around and discover stuff
(serendipity) and then share it with everyone.  We think more about the
business first and simply do what needs to be done from a business
perspective.  Or maybe we're too selfish to share. <g>  Maybe the Unix
world has to share to survive. <g>

Now don't anybody get offended, that's not my intent.  I'm not
suggesting that either group is more/less intelligent, or more/less
capable, or more/less driven, or more/less selfish.  Different
personalities within information technology may just gravitate to
different platforms.  We don't all have the same level of
bit-twiddle-itis. <g>

-- 
-Jeff
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