Re: RPG III

I kept hearing the "it works, so why change it" mantra at my previous 
client.  That application was a mixture of RPG II, RPG III, RPG IV and 
/free (only new development, only by me).

Fortunately, I'm now at a client where the entire application was written 
in /free from the start.

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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That's what I especially like about being a one-man shop: There was 
absolutely no argument, discussion, politics, or whatever about ditching 
the RPG III programs (converting to IV) and writing all new stuff in 
IV.  The excuses that I hear for not programming in IV are as lame as 
excuses get.


I "attended" a webcast yesterday by Susan Gantner on /free format.  One 
of Susan's arguments for using /free was that it looks more like 
"modern" languages like Java and C, which the few kids coming out of 
college IT courses are used to.  Besides not being able to code /free 
III code, a similar argument applies here: Managers are holding back 
(deliberately?) their programming staff and, just as bad, harming their 
companies because they can't/don't take advantage of better methods and 
available technology. 


But I try to keep an open mind.  I'd certainly be willing to hear of any 
reasonable excuse for sticking with III.  And "It's company policy or 
mandate" doesn't cut it.


                 * Jerry C. Adams