Re: RDi Birthday Celebration

[Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just don't get the resistance - other than price.  But, having used it, I would pay out of pocket if I had to.  

With a 22" monitor turned vertically, I can see ~120 lines of code.  The edit-compile-debug (bugs?) cycle is a phenomenal improvement.  A coworker still spends parts of some days drawing lines on a printout to figure out if/do blocks.  Of course, I tell him that if he coded in free format it would be a lot easier too.  But, sadly, we have a lot of fixed format code (even more sadly, some written this year).


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power




-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 5:49 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi Birthday Celebration

Or you might say you can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

On 12/10/2017 4:05 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 9:02 AM
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
> Subject: [WDSCI-L] RDi Birthday Celebration
>
> Gosh, just realised it is almost 10-years since RDi 7.1 was announced,
> (29th January 2008).
>
> If memory serves correctly, this was the first incarnation of the
> unbundled product, which required a separate licence. (It's forerunner,
> WDSc 7.0 was part of the server-bundled software, 5xxx-WDS.
>
> A decade has flown by - and we're _still_ trying to convince folk to
> adopt it!
>
> Brian.