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

[J.Beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Bas,

>- The main reasons for NOT converting the RPG/400 stuff to RPG/IV is:
>  - this would mean re-educate 35 people for RPG/IV (I would then
>personally chose C )
>  - We start to work with yet another language which does not realy
>improve transparency
>
>Again: I fully agree on converting, but how do I convince 35 people to
>learn RPG/IV?

RPG IV is NOT another language; it is the same language, in a slightly 
different format (and extended). Re-education is not necessary (until you 
want to use the added features, of course). A few years ago I told a new 
programmer, who was educated in RPG III, that we used RPG IV. That same 
morning he was programming in RPG IV; never looked back.

As for C: Now that is a totally different language. And since you can use 
the C libraries in RPG (IV), RPG is arguably more powerful than C on the 
iSeries.

Joep Beckeringh