Reminds me when I worked with a system-36 guy,<fossil> who bragged how great the system-36 was.
I said do we have system-36 here? Where your vast knowledge would come in handy? He replied no. I said do we have old system-36 code, that would benefit this company, and again he responded "No". Are we allowed to program in the cycle here? Once again the answer was NO.
What good is your Knowledge at this company? Do you speak Chinese/Japanese that would be awesome, but completely worthless for our I.T. department.
Side note, this former employer of mine, had flipped from Wang/Cobol to AS400/RPG back in the early 90's.
So, let me RE-PHRASE my question. Is anybody using PUNCH-CARDS TODAY for RPGLE? <Big Smirk>
I don't care if you used a hammer and a chisel. Do you have programming skills relative to the 21st Century? That impresses me. Not that you use to have an "out-house" or rode a horse to work or something completely irrelevant to "Modern Programming". Do you know how to process JSON and XML? How about reset/soap web-service? EDI processing? Etc...
POINT MADE!
Let's show that the IBM i is MODERN, and we use a MODERN I.D.E. like RDI in the 21st Century! <Joy Joy>
<I step down from my soap box>
-Ken Killian-
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System 36 had a punch card like one row editing screen when I started...
Kristen
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:43 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.5 announcement
Careful there, young 'un. 80-column Hollerith veteran here. Last used in 1983. There's probably more of us here than you realize.
;-)
- Dan
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have heard of Word-Wrap? <smirk>
Why be tied to 60-year-plus 80-column old punch cards??? That every
RPG Developer I know has NEVER used punch cards!
Sorry, I don't know any fossil-type that wrote RPG code on Punch Cards.
That was WAY BEFORE my time! Thank goodness!
...
-Ken Killian-
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