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Re: AW: Development Environment Tools for RPG 400 .

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:43 PM, <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just to be accurate and on solid footing here, WDSc was not free. [...]
it's cost was bundled with the cost of everything else you bought for
development.

I still wish they would go back to that model. The main argument I've
heard for them abandoning it is that even when WDSC was bundled, it
STILL did not get many users.

OK, fair enough. But the landscape has changed a lot since then.
Machines are more powerful (one of the things I kept hearing is that a
significant percentage of the folks who did give WDSC a try found it a
dog on their hardware; and this corroborates my own experience with
Eclipse in that era). The software itself is better (both Eclipse in
its own right and the IBM-specific extensions). SEU no longer
supports the full RPG syntax. There are so many reasons it would go
better today.

I'll stop myself there before I get into full-on rant mode.

John Y.

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