As an example of why ASP.net C# is not that easy to learn, take a simple example. take a field in a column of financial data, say the Available amount they can spend in a category for the current, make it green if it is positive and red if it is negative.
In RPG what would I do? I don't know one thing, if the screen data is still kept in DDS and using SDA but if so you could use an indicator for the color, there are obviously better techniques. The grid is in Windows say. To do this, I have to define a control first and then use it in the code, there are 15 lines or so. In RPG I would say If Amt > 0 then red else green, something to this effect. You wouldn't think that long about this. But in C# this will take me more time.
The whole process of binding data to screen display is much more complex, something that was under the covers on the i, or is.
It delays the Programmers development to think in i system terms.
--- On Tue, 8/10/10, Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 6:08 PM
true. i worked on a contract at a place that did exactly that. once they
started getting the lower level programmers asking for the job they were
told that the position was for one that was already taken. thanks to the
lax H1-B laws they satisfied the requirements just by posting the opening.
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
From: "Morgan, Paul" <Paul.Morgan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/10/2010 01:04 PM
Subject: RE: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?
Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Jerry,
It's probably an H-1B visa advertisement. They have to show proof that
they advertised for the position and could find no one qualified to get
the visa approved. They advertise a position with multiple requirements
so that no local is qualified.
Paul Morgan
Principal Programmer Analyst
IS Supply Chain/Replenishment
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:35 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?
...
All of that said, hiring companies almost always put their requirements in
the form of languages and/or packages. Other want ads for any kind of
programmer are scarce (around here, anyway), invariably they list multiple
languages, not just one. And it was rarely the same mix across the want
ads. [Personally, I think those kinds of ads are written to meet the
qualification(s) of someone that they have already decided to hire but
want to appear to be an EOE. But that's just an opinion.]
...
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. - Samual Goldwyn
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