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Oh my, this is a 'new' developer? I was thinking it was the IT Manager, or someone that was influential. So in reality, while you're trying to educate or convince, it doesn't sound like you're in this battle alone. In fact, it sounds like she is. Phew. Though hopefully you can make her see the light, but just don't try too hard. :)

-Kurt

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sjl
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Subject: Re: Reasons for using RPGIV

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.




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