RE: AS/SET - who needs RPG?

["Bill Hopkins" <BHopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Done the "bought into the Synon promotions" thing with an IBM person. We were 
suppose to show a company that synon could replace all of their custom "C" 
code. Did not happen.my group pulled me out after one app change over.IBM 
bit off way to much on that one. I've seen that product sitting still in 
plastic at more than one shop. They bought it. Programmers went to 
Herndon. That is were it ended. 

One thing I give to AS/SET it was the easiest of the two as far as 
learning curve.

Bill Hopkins
 




"DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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My first exposure to RPGIII was at a S36 shop turned as400 that bought 
into
the Synon promotions....  Not a great way to learn, but it definitely
changed my perspective... <vbg>  Synon at least got me started thinking in
modular terms, but the generated code was enough to drive you batty.... 
<g>

Guess that explains alot... ;)

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:26 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: AS/SET - who needs RPG?


Bill,

I changed the subject :-)

I've never met anyone in that boat.  However I did hear of a COBOL shop 
that moved to an iSeries that bought AS/SET to smooth out the RPG learning 

curve.  Being a former board member of the AS/SET Users Group, I can tell 
you that there were shops using AS/SET that never purchased BPCS.

I don't use AS/SET anymore, but in it's day I think developers would have 
been better off if they had generated the source into QTEMP and never 
looked at it.  By concentrating on the finished product is where it had 
it's benefit.  Looking at the source didn't allow you to see the forest 
through the trees.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 


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