Re: *** ADMIN: Ok, one more time, a POLL on www.midrange.com

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Or you REALLY want to learn it and use it and DO when you can, but when there is
a gun to your head to get something done (especially when maintaining existing
code) I could see this being a REAL issue. I.E. "all that needed to be done was
change, blah, blah, blah, WHY did you spend "x amount" of time doing THAT...? "
Short sided I agree, but reality in many shops I'm sure... Or "so and so 
modified
this program last and LOOK at it, everything has moved around and there is
different "stuff" in here and I can't work on it..."

There has GOT to be a real effort and PLAN put forth in shops to do this and
unfortunately management has to UNDERSTAND the issues and reasons in order to 
not
play devils advocate cost/time-wise...

I'm NOT saying don't do it, and we/I HAVE the opportunity to do this where I am,
I just know the situation others are probably in from folks I know at other 
shops
!

JMHO

Chuck

Michael Calabro/commsoft wrote:

> >Bit saddened to see that so many people are still using
> >RPG III as the primary language though.  With RPG IV being
> >so compatible it really is hard for me to understand why
> >people wouldn't use it.  Perhaps that's the topic
> >for the next survey David - to find out why !!
>
> Many people I know feel that they don't have the time to
> learn it.  In a "mixed" environment (legacy code side by
> side with new development) there's a feeling that using
> 2 versions will be hard to maintain.
>
> Buck Calabro
> CommSoft, Albany, NY
> mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
>
> +---
> | This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
> | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
> | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
> | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
> | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
> +---

+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---