Re: 5250 programmer to web programmer

It seems to me that there are pots and pots of choices out there of how
to present and request data to users. Not just choices of the language,
but also the devices. The wild-eyed requests are going to escalate over
the near-term, and the wild-eyed requests are going to make sense.

At this point is where I start to sound a tad sophomoric, but I do
believe the following: there will people who specialize on the front
end, and they will be good, very good in fact. They will have no
knowledge, nor any interest, in the back end. They won't care about
constraints, keys, timestamps, triggers, data relationships, or
enforcing business rules. Thats not a bad thing! They need to focus on
the new front end. On the other hand, the RPG programmers do know all
these issues and how to deal with them.

It is my opinion that there is a strong need for finding ways to couple
these two elements into teams that soar. I can see a bulkhead being
formed where two experts meet, greet, and provide the future in
wonderful new ways.