Re: RPG Standards?

Amen, brother.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wynn Osborne" <wynn@praxis.net>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: RPG Standards?


> I apologize in advance for this agendized speech, but it is related.
>
> Since I am in the middle of a JDE ERP project, which BTW is like, say,
> getting your first job at a company where your boss turns out to be an
> a-hole (mine isn't BTW), and he says:
>
> Here's your first project. It's simple. We need a new order entry
> system...and since you've been to school, I want it done with a bunch of
> those neat subfiles where you validate while entering, embedded help...and
> provide the means so that when a user pressed f4 on a field, a simple
> window pops up showing the valid values...and a simple modular
> feature...oh, we need it by the 30th.
>
> GOD HOW I LONG FOR RPG.
>
> Yes. Standards. Standards. Standards. Whatever they are, do it.
>
> Looking back, our shop was never more productive than about 2 years prior
> to the ERP talk. Good programmers, or technicians I should say (an
> important difference), standards, teamwork, metrics, a manager who
> understands technical people, and small egos; provides for the best
> environment for producing top quality code for the company.
>
> No matter what, I'll always be subscribed to this list. RPG is kinda old,
> but man, when you code a calc statement, IT DOES WHAT THE MANUAL SAYS IT
> WILL DO. And when you update the AS/400 database, IT DOES WHAT THE MANUAL
> SAYS IT WILL DO.
>
> Wynn Osborne
> Sen. P/A
>
>
>
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