RE: RPG IV (Was: ** POLL - How many of you are playing with Java/Websphere/JSP **)

["Pete Helgren" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No need to change if it still works just fine for you. I do bleeding edge
Java because there is no other cross-platform language I can code in, not
because it is new ( I have enough new stuff to learn, thank you..).

I have a 386 running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 as my primary 5250 client
at work because I don't NEED a P4 for terminal emulation. (What a geezer!)

But, I can't avoid the RPG IV learning curve for ever (and don't tell me
that that there is no learning curve, I have written a little in RPG IV, it
is VERY different from RPG III).  However, I DO like the format and the
language certainly seems to have a more natural syntax when I have to move
between Java, C++ and RPG in a day AND the Relational Web platform we use
(sweet!) is written in RPG IV.  The verdict:  I will become an RPG IV
programmer, and soon, but not because I want to.  I have to. I take my
spinach the same way.....

Yeah, I'm joking, in a grumpy kind of way.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software,Inc.
801.581.1154

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Colin Williams
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 5:45 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: ** POLL - How many of you are playing with
Java/Websphere/JSP **


Pete,

avoiding RPGIV, your joking arent you! Its been around for 8 or 9 years now!

cheers
Colin.W