Re: RE: Anyone not using WDSC for RPG development -- WDSCI-L

I agree, it can be made in Java, but oriented to create and maintain nonOO languages like RPG. A small program should open the source, determineif it is RPG or Java and call an editor optimized for that.An aproach similar to emacs will be nice, to have diferent helpers foreach job.

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Joel Fritz wrote:

I support the idea of a lite client or a less monolithic approach.  It
would be nice to choose which portions you would like to load.  All I do
is edit RPG code.   I'd use it for CL if it were more friendly.  There
are times that I just start CODE because it gets going faster and does
about the same thing.

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:09 PM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: [WDSCI-L] RE: Anyone not using WDSC for RPG develop

My personal opinion of WDSC is that it obviously does lots of nice
things but it suffers from the same problem that WebSphere

Application

Server has -- lots of thought given to bells and whistles,very little

thought given to usability.
This is contrary to one of the key philosophies of OS/400which is to

hide complexity as much as possible.

I tend to agree with you.

Once upon a time I asked Roger Pence what he thought the real
underlying problem was with Client Access.  His answer in one
word: "overengineered".
IBM seems to be good at that.

That being said, I use WDSC for RPG development and would
kick and scream a holy fit if it was taken away.  At the same

time I will probably _never_ use 80% plus of what's in WDSC.Heck I probably don't even know what 80% of what's in it _is_

let alone use it.  I bought Joe Pluta's WDSC book.  It's over
500 pages and doesn't talk about editing until page 377.