RE: [WDSCI-L] Some obvious questions on WDSci ?

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joep,

Presumable its because not all of their programmmers are comfortable with
RPGIV.

RPGIV has been out for almost 10 years? I cant believe that this kind of
thinking is still around. 

If a programmer hasn't picked up a version of their chosen language that has
been around for 10 years, what does that say about their skills. They are at
least 10 years out of date!

cheers
Colin.W
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: J.Beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:J.Beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 02 September 2004 12:19
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Some obvious questions on WDSci ?


Bas,

>1.
>Take a look at http://search.experts-exchange.com and you'll know what I
>mean with 'forum like set-up'

Hm. You can turn the question around: why doesn't this site list OS/400? 
As for forums for iSeries: goto 
<http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/isnforums/>.

>3, 6.
>For my company it is NOT an option to convert to RPG IV (as much as 
>I'll like to) so you can imagine that I am somewhat frustrated to be 
>forced to work with RPG/400 and on top of that find out that using 
>WDSci for this is simply not complete.

Why is converting not an option? After conversion you have exactly the 
same program, in a slightly different format, that is most probably easier 
to read. Only disadvantage I can think of is that you can't easily copy 
fragments of code from one format to the other. If you think RPG IV is 
'new': it is older than Windows 95. Imagine a company for which it is not 
an option to replace Windows 3.1 with something more modern.

Joep Beckeringh
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