RE: RPG IV release levels and complexity

["Bob cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,
Granted there are somewhere between 10 and 2000 of us RPG coders who cherish
the new enhancements for what they're worth, the vast majority of developers
out there are either feeling left out and are anxious over the complexity in
memorizing what release they need to use certain functions. I have recently
seen 10+ year RPG programmers spend hours and in some cases days trying to
get a piece of code to compile only to later discover that the feature
wasn't available on V5R1. And yet you see article after article (not mine of
course) with published code and examples that represent that they will work
on the vast majority of machines.  So a V5R1 or worse, V4R5 user spends the
time to try the new technique on their systems and bamb! It won't compile. 
I'm not suggesting the articles need to be changed, just the compiler. <g>

Bob Cozzi
Cozzi Consulting
www.rpgiv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Tom Daly
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:21 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RPG IV release levels and complexity





 |  -----Original Message-----
 |  From: Hans Boldt [mailto:boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]
 |  Subject: Re: RPG IV release levels and complexity

|  
 |  Finally, in my opinion, the pace of enhancements in the past few 
 |  releases has indeed been too aggressive.


Too aggressive???  Keep 'em coming!!!!  You guys are doing a great job (if
only we cn  get the marketing guys on board;) )

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