RE: Visual RPG vs. Other Visual languages

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are sailing on the same boat in the same ocean.  There are very few IT
shops that are adequately staffed.   Does that mean you should not seek new
solutions?  I, like Steve Landess, learn a lot of new stuff in my own
personal time.  But then again not everyone has programming as a personal
hobby;-)

<snip>
...unproductive for three months while they learn an entirely different
language just to get this one little Windows app running"
</snip>

There, that sounds like a better time to market for learning a new language.
I might give them a little longer unless they have total dedication to just
learning.  It was an investment not unproductive time.

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Gillespie [mailto:lgillespie@cvwd.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:32 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Visual RPG vs. Other Visual languages


Aaron, you keep saying "RPG programmers with little
ambition to learn a different language."  How about
changing that to "understaffed small shops with
no budget for training and too busy to allow the
programming staff to be unproductive for three
months while they learn an entirely different
language just to get this one little Windows app
running" and see if you can't get a slightly
different perspective on the value of VRPG.



Lance Gillespie
Coachella Valley Water District
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