RE: New RPG programmers

["Greg Garner" <ggarner_gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The thread seems to have moved away from the central question.  As we are
preaching to the choir about the virtues of the RPG model, where are the
follow on programmers going to come from?  As this group ages, experience
level increases and improves, and salaries continue to climb more and more
newbies are joining the ranks of the employed at much lower costs per hour
equipped with whatever IT tools.  Business owners will comparing (unfairly)
at the cost per processing unit (whatever that turns out to be) and coming
up with a cost that appears lower than to continue to use the OS/400 model.
Employing the ILE model is, in my view, a method to convert US(OPM) to THEM.
Not as a method to convince Them to want to become US.

Gregory A. Garner
Garner Data Systems, Inc.
4270 Grand Teton Parkway
Suwanee, GA 30024
Phone: 770 845 9636
Fax:   770 614 3496



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:56 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: New RPG programmers


> The title is Programming in RPG IV Third Edition. Yes it does
> SubProcedures and Freeform.

But does it cover The Cycle? And all the unconventional ways to put it to
work in interactive environments? Because The Cycle is quite literally the
ONLY strength that is entirely unique to RPG.

--
JHHL


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