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

["Paul Nicolay" <Paul.Nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bas,

You shouldn't convince those 35 programmers... THEY should have convinced 
themselves 10 years ago that ILE was in THEIR best interest.

I was never asked to learn or migrate to ILE, and now free format, but the fact 
is that all my new development is in free format.  This is based on personal 
interest and education... and the flexibility and speed increase ILE and free 
format offer me, has already long paid back the initial investment.

BTW, are you serious in using C as a business language ?  However, we could ask 
the same about Java :-)

Kind regards,
Paul


----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: Dijk, Bas v [mailto:bvdijk@xxxxxxxxx]
Verzonden: donderdag, september 2, 2004 12:08 PM
Aan: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Onderwerp: RE: [WDSCI-L] Some obvious questions on WDSci ?

Guys, guys, I fully agree on the outdated part but let me explain:

- Currently we use LANSA for development
- The 'old' stuff is done in RPG/400 (or older), we are talking about
15.000+ objects
- Totaly re-writing to LANSA simply takes far to much time so we have to
live with RPG/400 for the old stuff
- Whenever a change or bugfix has something to do with old code we
simply try to determine which takes more time:
  - Change the old code, or
  - Re-write in LANSA
- 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?

BTW: Michael, I don't think I will be able to deal with it! WDSci is
said to support RPG/400 (and it does (a bit)). So, my opinion is:
Support it for 100% or don't bother!