Re: Opinions

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, I agree that the adoption of RPG IV as well as ILE seems much
slower than it should be.

I mean, ILE and RPG IV aren't new.   They came out in, what?  1994?
I guess they're slightly newer than the 486.   

For the other platforms that I work with (mostly BSD at this point)
adoption of new languages and technologies is very quick.  People were
adopting things like Python before the compiler had left the beta-stage.

The RPG people seem to, on the whole, be much more interested in the
business side of things than the programming side of things.  They don't
want to be good programmers, they want to do good business.

Obviously, I'm not one of those people.  :)   Let the sales and
administration people worry about business -- my job is to create
tools for them.

I spend as much of my free time every day learning how to do new and
exciting things with my computers (both AS/400 and PC) as I do actually
at work.

That's the difference between businessman and a computer-geek, I guess :)


On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 Jon.Paris@hal.it wrote:

> 
>  >> This is BS Jon.
> 
> You're entitled to your opinion Brad - but I'll keep mine thanks.
> 
> Jon Paris
> Jon.Paris@e400.com
> 
> www.e400.com - A new wave of iSeries and AS/400 Education
> 

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