RE: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

Good programmers borrow, great programmers steal. I'm just aspiring to
greatness. :-)

And, yes, modules, service programs, open source (open source RPG!!) ILE
are the future direction of our System i community. Not in a jump on
the bandwagon way, but in a continuous improvement, this is the best
direction way. That alone is a huge argument for heading toward ILE.
The baby-steps approach is another.


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Subject: RE: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

Mark Dame wrote on 24/04/2007 08:54:17:

I can't steal, er, use
ILE modules and service programs from outside if I don't use ILE.

It's not stealing if you're taking something that's freely available.
Thinking that using outside code is somehow not as good as building your
own is, I believe, also known as NIH syndrome. I know it's hard to let
go of this, but if the i5 community wants to survive, I think it needs
to get over that hurdle.

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