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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.
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