I have always had the opinion that the IBM I programs/interfaces were done by people with more real-world experience - having worked in whatever industry or similar. That gives you more insight into what is needed to perform the function(s).
Again, just my opinion but I think most of the web stuff is designed by people who never worked a retail counter, dealt with inventory, etc.
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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IMHO the takeaway here is that the greenscreen interface, within its now-too-obvious limits, hewed tightly to certain usability factors mandated from top down.
IBM did studies in the early 1970's on the decline in operator productivity measured against response time, etc.
The problem of crappy web interfaces that supplant tight greenscreen code is not an intrinsic validation of greenscreen vs. web interface.
The problem is that some web programmers are more interested in web programming, web toolkits, and visual features unrelated to enterprise productivity than in delivering a comfortable workspace in a browser to people who work intensively in one application day after day.
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I think this is an excellent example of how durable and "in the present"
the IBM i is. A "green screen" is not necessarily equivalent to "stuck
in the past". I use SSH/puTTy "black screen" aka "ugly terminal" every
day on the most bleeding edge platforms out there. Choose the best tool
for the best job....
Pete Helgren
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