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  3. September 2004

Re: Where to send die-hard RPG III programmers?


They may not have a compelling reason to learn it now but there may come a
time when they do. At that point they will have to:
1. Hurry to catch up
2. Have a harder time understanding the difficult things because they are
still mastering the basics
3. Missed potential opportunities to use the new options because the old
stuff was good enough --Dave Parnin


We taught one of the first non-IBM AS/400 courses in S. Florida. One consultant, who in previous times had as many programmers working in his company, had gotten himself "stuck" in RPG-II and System 36 programming. His ran out of work, and there was only one possibility open to him, and they told him to learn RPG/400 and OS/400 first.

Another student was a guy who worked for a S/36 contracting company, where the partners had gone their own ways, and he offered to work for "peanuts" to get up to speed and for the chance to learn. It worked out for him, for my one-man "day-job" employer at the time.

In-house or software house, companies and their staff are going to be dragged along, because a lot (way most) good programmers are going to move to the new stuff as fast as they can find out what it's about. This will include the very best they have and especially the ones they hired for their up-to-date skills in the first place. Like a local bank that got an AS/400 and our classes, because they were already losing a lot of their good programmers to AS/400 shops.

And as usual, all these things assume all else being equal in the marketplace, etc.

-- Alan


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