RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV -- RPG400-L

Title: RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

Are you serious?

If you haven't noticed, all of the hand-coded RPG 2/3/4 "million dollar" package vendors are gone!!

They have gone out of business, sold out, or whatever, but are no longer tied to the AS/400 RPG design paradigm, as you call it.

The remaining players are all marketing within AND outside the AS/400 World, so they have moved beyond the RPG game. They all develop in C or VB or a CASE tool that they invented or whatever.

I dont think any serious players are still coding in RPG of any flavor. I'm pretty sure that none of them even generate RPG anymore from their tools!

For example JDE, Lawson, Intentia, etc, etc.

The RPG-developed apps vendors lost market share and are gone!

-----Original Message-----
From: John P Carr [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 2:37 PM
To: RPG400-L
Subject: RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

""but there are some big-name software packages out there that are sticking
to their
70's roots. ""

Why not start a "Mass" mailing to the worst 3rd party vendors petitioning
them
to use new RPGIV design paradigms??

Maybe send them a sample of their own code, and one written "Better"
using RPGIV and sign it as concerned customers?

Raise the visibility of their @#$% code. One of the hardest parts of
trying to get shops to use RPGIV is the argument that they "Still" have to
maintain RPGIII vendor code.

Tell the vendors that they are *NOT helping their customers with their
products.

kinda vigilante I know, but it's like trying to move a battleship with
these guys.

Well just a thought.

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