RE: /FREE RPG compiler errors -- RPG400-L

>IBM really needs to improve upon that if they want all of us old
green-screeners to switch!

I agree that it is slow but so are a lot of other IDE's out there.  If you
are going to be using a decent IDE you are going to need at least 512MB of
RAM and at least a 1GHz non-Celeron processor.

I made a cost justification to my boss (at the time) and told her how much
time I spent waiting for things to happen on my slow PC.  Within a couple
weeks I had a hoppin' new system;-)

I think it would be wise for all RPG programmers to at least try CODE out.
It is free, it is fast (if you don't run it in WSDc), and will give you a
more pleasurable programming experience (but maybe that is not important to
you).

My favorite thing about it is that I can see 60+ lines of code at a time!  I
agree that improvements need to be made, but a lot of those improvements are
coming out in the next release of WSDc.

Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cagle [mailto:bcagle@lynkinc.com]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:59 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: /FREE RPG compiler errors


Actually, CODE is a "plug-in" for WDSC.  And you're right, it is too
slow!  IBM really needs to improve upon that if they want all of us old
green-screeners to switch!

Back to the point - I have seen absolutely nothing wrong with /Free and
have not seen or heard of any compiler errors.

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk, Inc.
Phone: 913-492-9202 ext 41
Fax: 913-894-1556
BCagle@LynkInc.com


-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs [mailto:david@midrange.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:13 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: /FREE RPG compiler errors

"Bob Cagle" <bcagle=1/Z/dJ/1MFBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote in
message
news:<3F46017E226F6A4BB7F4043C4061793208D9A2@lynk-exch.lynkinc.com>...

> If the PC side of the programming world moved as slow as the
> AS/400/iSeries programming community, we would all still be using DOS
> machines running QBasic routines on 8088 processors!

<blink> You mean you don't use QBASIC on a 8088 DOS machine???

> SEU is dead! Go with CODE. RLU bites! Use CODE Designer.
> Fixed-format RPG will be around for a long time, but as far as new
> development is concerned, it is also dead! Use ILE RPGIV and /Free.

Bzzzttt... wrong, try again ... CODE is dead, long live WDSC ... for now
at
least, until IBM comes up with the next replacement.

Personally, I don't use CODE or WDSC for RPG coding on the 400 ... I
don't
like CODE's paradigm and WDSC is too slow (even on my 2ghz desktop
machine).

But we digress :)

david



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