Re: ASNA's RPG

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam,

The only solid reason from the point of view of a one-person contract
programming company is the price -- I believe IBM's is about 1/3 the price
of ASNA's at the moment.

But if you have the $, I would pick ASNA also. As a part time VB programmer,
when I first saw ASNA's VRPG, it was almost surprising to see RPG code
behind the forms -- everything else looked almost exactly like VB (I think
it was VB3 at the time). IBM's VARPG has some bizarre GUI concept which I
still don't quite get -- it's like their programmers never saw any Windows
application software before.

HTH,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Kanakanui" <skanakanui@triad.rr.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 8:30 PM
Subject: ASNA's RPG


> Hi,
> First, after looking at ASNA's visual RPG product and IBM's I tend to
favor
> ASNA's.  If anyone has solid reason to disagree, please let me know.
> Second, does anyone know of a book or publication that shows the
differences
> between ASNA's Caviar programming language and RPGIV?  They look similar
but
> I'm sure they have some differences.  Any ideas here would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Sam Kanakanui
> Borg Systems Inc.
>
>
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