Re: IBM i "Open I/O" Architecture

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is not a matter of what we can do. My point was what people will do.

If Jon's figures are correct and AS/400 programmers are refusing to move
forward this is a waste of time.

My personal experience is that 30% is an extremely high number. In the
programmers I have worked with over the last 13 years, I have seen exactly
zero doing modern programming. People fight it like death itself. The only
ones I have seen doing anything are programmers working in Java or some
other language but even then they switch back to monolith when writing RPG.

A bigger problem than the programmers themselves is the management. In every
shop I have had to fight to write modern code. Managers just want to keep
doing what they have done. Built in obsolescence. In some ways I understand
it. They are just looking to keep the system running until the new system
are available. Well, I could go forever about this.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mike Cunningham wrote:
> > Don't blame the language or OS or hardware for bad programmers. I can
> > write a giant monolithic application in Java or RPG and I can write a
> > modularized ILE RPG application as easily as a modularized Java
> > application. It would be like saying no one should use Wintel systems
> > because some programmers still code in visual basic.
>
> When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
>
> --
> James H. H. Lampert
> Mixed-Language Programmer
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