Re: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

> Nice idea, but not very realistic in the AS/400 arena.
> How many developers who might be interested in such a thing
>
> a) have access to an as/400 at home
There are sites where one can rent time on a AS/400 with all the goodies at
the current OS level... And not expensive either. I for one would be willing
to bear the cost of providing myself with time on an AS/400. Perhaps the
owners of these sites would consider helping the open source movement by
further decreasing the cost for major contributors... This would give us a
place to store and maintain code.

> b)if they could do some on their employers systems, would have the time
Well I work the usual 12 hours a day six days a week but that still leaves
me with six hours a day to program :-)

> c) most employment contracts for development staff state that all
> development work performed on company equipment and time belongs to the
> company
See point A

> d)aside from anything else, how many man years do you think have gone
> into a system like JDE to get it where it is today!
I think that most of the man years (or centuries) have been spent due to a
poor design and even more poorly maintained code... Besides the open source
movement is all about this sort of thing, get a million monkeys working at
the same time on a million routines and they will be done more quickly...
Then the real work of testing begins, unit, integration and system.
Fortunately we now have procedures and by virtue of that local variables !!!
This greatly simplifies the development of complex systems as it cuts down
on interesting synergistic actions between chunks of code.

With a good design and logical functional decomposition with well defined
interfaces, work should be able to progress in relative isolation and then
later be glued into the whole...

And why not start writing one module at a time. Shoot I have written so many
AP AR GL and IC systems over the past 30 years that I think I could do it in
my sleep :-)

Just some thoughts... (And if I sounded rude that was not my intention)
Eric

______________________________________________
Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software & Computer Services
2913 N Alder St.
Tacoma WA 98407

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