Re: where can I download a RPG/400 guide?

Thank you Joe, very well said.

Perhaps it was stupid to use stupid...but I'm an old Army grunt, stupid was
a step up from my first thought. ;p

irresponsible is a good choice, as is short-sighted.

I personally know of a rather large company that just let 6 RPG developers
go. The ones that got let go were the ones perfectly happy quietly coding
in RPG III+ or RPG IV. The ones that got to stay were the ones who have
learned other languages and always engineer ILE RPG solutions.

Charles


On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 2:28 PM Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Eddie, I hope you take this is the spirit it was intended, which is to
attempt to illuminate both sides of a contentious discussion. I
personally did not like the use of the word "stupid", but my alternative
isn't really all that much more gentle. I would have used
"irresponsible". I consider it irresponsible to not advise management
in strong terms of a path that has nearly zero risk or effort but yet
provides a high value-add, which is what CVTRPGSRC does. The generated
code is not pretty, but it requires no cleanup or modification and
IMMEDIATELY provides the benefits of all of the expanded functionality
of non-ILE RPG IV, from BIFs to better RDi support. So the point was not
questioning your intellect, just the wisdom of the decision.

Obviously the word "stupid" is loaded; it almost always comes off as
condescending. However, I think if you review your own posts with an
unbiased eye you might see a bit of condescension on your side as well.
I know that seeing that sort of thing in your own posts is hard to do,
but I've gotten good at it over the years because frankly, I used to be
a complete and utter horse's ass on these forums. Usually, though, it
was in response to someone else slighting me (perceived or actual), and
at the end of the day it took two to tango.

Tone is impossible to convey on forums and is often subject to the worst
possible interpretation.

Anyway, just my nickel's worth of free advice. :) Take it for what
it's worth.

And just to be clear, I am pre-emptively ignoring ANY posts commenting
on the phrase "used to be". :^P