RE: RPG 'CPAN' site

["Peter Colpaert" <Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I totally agree with this.

My employer would not like to see the result of my (under)paid efforts on
the 'net.

If they make a (real & affordable) version of OS/400 and especially RPG on
a PC, I'd immediately be very interested indeed.

And I'm not talking about VisualRPG (too expensive for home development) or
VisualAge RPG (you still need an AS/400 for your database).

On the other hand, if IBM have a V5R1 machine too many, I would gladly help
them get rid of it <g>.

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
Honda Europe NV
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I love cats ... they taste just like chicken
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"Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@merck.com>@midrange.com on 01/03/2002
14:56:12

Please respond to rpg400-l@midrange.com

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To:   "'rpg400-l@midrange.com'" <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
cc:

Subject:  RE: RPG 'CPAN' site


Hans,

I have the same feeling about this... while we all would like to see a
community like it exists for Linux, C, ... we won't get it by just dumping
sources to the outside world.  The reason is that most of us don't have an
environment (and if they do, it is at the office where they don't have the
time) to play with it, nor to develop it on.

In my opinion, it is not the amount of available source that is driving the
popularity, but rather the access to a machine to play with during your
free
time.  This is still the biggest problem (I don't see much people sharing
code that has been written during office hours).

If IBM would make it possible to run OS/400 on an Intel platform... we
would
have a completely different picture !

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: 01 March, 2002 14:40
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: RPG 'CPAN' site

...snip....

BTW, for me personally, I have neither the time nor desire to
get deeply involved with this kind of thing.  For years, I've
tried to encourage more open-source efforts among the RPG
community, but whatever happens has to be organized and
managed by the RPG community, in my opinion.  And to be
brutally honest, I'm still not entirely convinced that open
source software can make much of an impact in this community.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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