Re: Reasons for using RPGIV

[Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx>]

here is an off the wall question...

What do you think the standards are at JDE?
Do they eat their own dog food?

-gerald



On 4/15/2011 10:05 AM, sjl wrote:
> Dennis -
>
> As I alluded in my original post, this is basically an argument with one
> person - a /new/ developer in our shop who once worked for JDE, and who is
> of the opinion that there is no need to use anything but RPG/400 to write
> code...
>
> On the other hand, there are at least 10 other developers here that disagree
> with her philosophy, and since we already have a substantial amount of
> existing RPGIV code mixed in with OPM code in the shop, I don't think she
> will be able to muster much support for her position.
>
> In fact, I don't even know why she is pushing so hard when her argument is
> clearly untenable.
>
> - sjl
>
>
> Dennis wrote:
>    I haven't been following this thread as closely as I might have,
>    but I don't think the original poster has chimed in about
>    reasons for this pushback.
>
>    Though I am loathe to support such pushback, I have seen
>    situations where it may seem to make sense.  In particular,
>    a programming farm on the  Asian continent does all the
>    programming work for a particular set of pharmaceutical companies.
>
>    These people know RPG/400 to some extent, and ILE  not at all.
>    The company has a position that introoduction of ILE to that
>    source set introduces a wealth of support issues.
>
>    Instantly, the set of individuals who can support a particular change
>    is reduced until training occurs - and this particular organization
>    has no desire to retrain.  They are able to retain their staff
>    and keep things interesting by double-teaming their responsibilities.
>
>    While  Roji may be on the PHP and RPG team,
>    Koko may be on the Java and RPG team.