RE: RPG 'CPAN' site

John,

I fully agree... if you want it... many solutions do exist.

I always find it funny to find people who never used ILE-RPG because their
company is still using RPG.  My company or the customer I was working never
asked it explicitly neither, but it was due to my will that I started to
play with it myself.

Instead of having a big lunch, or a coffee break... I was coding all sorts
of things in ILE-RPG.  In the mean while, I have the knowledge that is
required to do all sorts of fun projects (sockets, web, xml, mq series, ...)
that I would never have gotten if I didn't invest the time in the past !

Just do it... the possibilities of V4R2 are still amazing regarding ILE-RPG
!

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: John Taylor [mailto:jtaylor@rpg2java.com]
Sent: 01 March, 2002 16:10
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: RPG 'CPAN' site


V4R2, V4R5.... so what!  I learned ILE on V3R1.

Maybe this doesn't apply to you Peter, or to Martin, but there is much that
can be learned on a V4R2 system by the average RPG III developer.

You (speaking in general) have systems available to learn on, documentation
freely available on the web, and world class talent --including the compiler
developers-- right here on this list whom are willing to help you. If half
as much effort went into utilizing these resources as is currently expended
in the creative formulation of new "ya but" excuses, we probably wouldn't be
having this conversation.


John Taylor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Colpaert" <Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 7:42 AM
Subject: RE: RPG 'CPAN' site


>
> Martin,
>
> I checked it out just now, and in the FAQ it says:
>
> "Currently, the timeshare service is running on a RISC model 600 with
> OS/400 version V4R2."
>
> Better than nothing.
>
> BTW, netshare400.com (US$ 120,- a year) is only at V4R5.
>
> Peter Colpaert
> Application Developer
> Honda Europe NV
> ----------
> Program documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good;
and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
> ----------
>


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