Re: Open Access for RPG

Don't pick out RPG programmers and put only them into this group. This
behavior is across all aspects of everything people do. People, in general,
resist change. Doesn't matter what the change is they resists it. What I
think might make this more apparent in the IBM midrange environment is that
IBM has done an exceptional job in keeping RPG backwards compatible. For the
most part code written 20 years ago will still compile and run today. In
contrast if RPG was a Microsoft product there would have been forced change
along the way that would prevent 20 year old code from running today and
people who have code this old that still works would have been forced to
recode it at least every 5 years to have it work in a current compiler.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of john e
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 4:28 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Open Access for RPG

My experience so far tells me that RPG Programmers are a> lazy bunch

(exceptions prove the rule).

That's - very frustrating - my experience also for the last 20 years
working in RPG environments.Trying to "persuade" (which to begin with i
shouldn't have to do) an RPG programmer to learn something "new" is like
pulling a dead horse.
I already gave up on this, and now i'm looking for an alternative
development career because the AS/400 is really the best business platform
out there but the development tools/people morale etc is pathetic. There is
no future anymore in this platform.

From: Mihael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Open Access for RPG
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:24:42 +0000

The truth is that the major part of iSeries programmers dosn't fit in

to

iNetwork, Midrange.com or whatever - they are highly skilled in their
applications and may be resonable good programmers, but is either not
aware, has no experience or has fear to join a forum amoung so called
experts that in best case gives them three lines of code (with a lot
is expected to be understod) where the actually wanted an example.

In other words, they are "holistic", programming is only a matter of
reaching the overall goal - to do their job or achive their goals.

If you look back in the EASY400GROUP, Jon, you will find that many of
my examples is based on "working examples" or actual solutions, I never
answer people with one statement of code where they have to figure the
rest out for themselves.

Join a forum/channel/newsgroup which handles some mainstream programming

language and provide a working example for some trivial task/question and
you'll find yourself being slapped for that. Why? Because joining a
forum/channel/etc is also about learning and not just about letting other
people do the work.

My experience so far tells me that RPG Programmers are a lazy bunch

(exceptions prove the rule).

Mihael
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