Re: RPG and Web.. (was Using OO concepts in RPG)

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> Fact is, every tool has its own particular set of fundamental
> advantages and disadvantages, and programming languages are no
> exception. Expecting one tool to do everything well is simply
> unrealistic.
>

As an IT manager, am I to only hire programmers that have proficiency in
all 7-9 different languages that we need to do things "right" in your
opinion?  Or am I to spend time & money training them in all of these
technologies?

In either case, it results in higher costs to my company, either in salary
or in training/time or both.  It also results in a difficult environment
to manage.

Sure, in a huge corporation like IBM it makes perfect sense to have
different people working in different languages.  Then, just send the
project to the place where it is most appropriate.

But, in a smaller company, such as mine, where we've got 3 people in the
IT department, it's completely unrealistic to think that we're going to
support doing every project in a different language just because you think
it might save us a few hours of coding.

We already work in RPG, C, CL, DDS, VB, and Bourne Shell.   We don't need
to add other languages to that list of requirements!