RE: New RPG programmers

["Paul Bila, Duro-Last Roofing" <pbila@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No gray hair here either.  I've been programming in RPG for six years.  I've
been exposed to RPG II, RPG III, & RPG IV.  I learned here in house.

Paul Bila
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeffrey Lee
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:19 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: New RPG programmers

I think assembly is close to RPG in terms of syntax restrictions

On Nov 5, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Michael Jacobsen wrote:

> No gray hair here either!  I just graduated college in August with an 
> MIS
> degree, and have been programming in RPG IV since June.  I had never 
> even
> heard of RPG or the AS/400 before I took this job.  The closest thing I
> learned to RPG in college was COBOL.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/05/2004 02:15:56 PM:
>
>> Does the community see where the new crop of RPG programmers is coming
> from?
>> A few long term iSeries sites are evaluating the "graying" of the
> community
>> (see the MCPress survey).  They are deciding whether to invest in 
>> "new"
> RPG
>> coders as employees and instead only use contractors as the resource.
>>
>> Gregory A. Garner
>> Garner Data Systems, Inc.
>> 4270 Grand Teton Parkway
>> Suwanee, GA 30024
>> Phone: 770 845 9636
>> Fax:   770 614 3496
>>
>>
>>
>>
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