RE: [WDSCI-L] (no subject)

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Mike Troxclaire
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:31 PM
>
> Thanks a lot Charles. That solves my 'Hello World' problem, I
> surmise.:-).
> Well, this is the situation...I am a Java programmer and there ours is a
> pure AS400 shops where lots of programs are written in RPG and we
> are moving
> towards Java and we will be going through a translation project
> in a year or
> so and in the mean time I need to understand RPG so that when
> those programs
> get converted into Java I need to understand the Logic behind those RPG
> programs so as to make sure that no garbage is coming out into
> Java classes.
> Well, please let me know if that gives you any idea of the problem I am
> in...if not I will be glad to elaborate. Thanks a bunch for the response.

<Cloud of doom casts pall over ... Wait!  That was one heckuva run-on
sentence!>

Ahem.  The simple, wide-open question:  Does your boss have any idea what
s/he's doing?

Before I jump to conclusions, how about a little more detail?  What is the
"translation project"?  Are you moving off the AS/400?  If so, to what?

db