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On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:03:02 +1200
 Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Brad
> 
> you seem hell bent on ignoring the fact that the Python,
> Perl, et al, classes or packages are publicly available.
> The RPG classes... well you have to write them yourself
> (yes I know about CGI-DEV)
> 
> The fact that they are publicly and widely available is
> the productivity multiplier that makes Hans 3 lines of
> code statement valid.

When does something become "widely available"?  Does it
have to come from IBM, or a 3rd party, or a well-known
organization?  Or can it come from Aaron?  If it does, will
we support and his work him or would we rather direct
people to IBM or a big 3rd party vendor that we drink with
at COMMON every year?

That theory just don't hold water... sorry.  And if it
does, it's because of the lack of support of the little guy
and self-bashing in our group that we don't have those
types of libraries available.  

Who wants to put forth the effort, make source available
only to have it criticized because:

"Its only RPG" or
"You whould use DOW instead of DOU" or
"You should just use Perl anyway" or 
Having no one contribute and everyone just "take take take"
and ask a million questions or 
when someone asks for something no one points them to that
source, and instead point them to some other product or the
IBM manuals.

This community and the Perl/Python community are two
complete different animals.  Each with the good points,
each with the bad.  They're not even comparable.