RE: Re[2]: Retrieve system time

Tower of Babel. <g>

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From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 6:02 AM
To: Norman Seaton
Cc: RPG400-L@MIDRANGE.COM; eric.delong@pmsi-services.com
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Retrieve system time




Actually, alot of the old men that have worked on more than one platform
and more than one language still can't figure why 1: we have to have all
these different languages and why there can't be changes made to the
language/compiler to support a evolving world and 2: why we don't have
alot of the same functionality in all the languages that IBM supports...



On Thu, 25 May 2000, Norman Seaton wrote:

> It's scriptural,
> Young men see visions 
>      (expanded capabilities of RPG IV) 
> and old men dream dreams 
>     (programming techniques are constant).
> 
> 
> <<< eric.delong@pmsi-services.com  5/25  9:15p >>>
> 
>      So it would seem, though I get CONSIDERABLE resistance here 
>      whenever I mention converting apps to RPGIV. My manager and one of 
>      the other senior programmers here look at me like I'm sprouting 
>      horns or something when I bring it up. Their number one excuse is 
>      "we need to teach the junior programmers RPGIII before we confuse 
>      them with RPGIV." What a load! Both of the jr programmers seem 
>      interested in IV, willing to learn it. Two of us are using it for 
>      all new apps, occasionally converting from III to IV if (big if) we 
>      can prove that the conversion adds value to the program. So far, 
>      relatively few conversions have been allowed due to managements 
>      reluctance to this "new stuff". BAH!
>      
>      eric.delong@pmsi-services.com
> 
> 
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