Re: [WDSCI-L] Re: New version of WDSC

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This triggers what has been a growing concern for me. (This is not a shot 
at you, Mark, but a general comment on the industry.)

In the last 14 years that I've worked on AS/400, one thing considered 
crucial, and a very strong selling point, was backward compatibility. But I 
see the java (and maybe open source) world giving this less shrift than I 
think it should. Every release of Eclipse seems to require changes in how 
we are to work, from different arrangements of windows and menu options, to 
internal API calls. And the worst part of this is, we put up with this.

All the deprecated stuff in java will eventually not work at all. OTOH, the 
400 can probably compile an RPG I source member - I know it'll do an RPG II 
program.

JMHO

Vern

At 08:26 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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> I think that most of us wouldn't
> mind the occasional "screw-up" slipping through if it meant quicker turn
> around on some of these problems.

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