Good programmers borrow, great programmers steal.  I'm just aspiring to
greatness.  :-)   
And, yes, modules, service programs, open source (open source RPG!!) ILE
are the future direction of our System i community.  Not in a jump on
the bandwagon way, but in a continuous improvement, this is the best
direction way.  That alone is a huge argument for heading toward ILE.
The baby-steps approach is another.  
Mark Dame 
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Subject: RE: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?
Mark Dame wrote on 24/04/2007 08:54:17:
I can't steal, er, use
ILE modules and service programs from outside if I don't use ILE.
It's not stealing if you're taking something that's freely available. 
Thinking that using outside code is somehow not as good as building your
own is, I believe, also known as NIH syndrome.  I know it's hard to let
go of this, but if the i5 community wants to survive, I think it needs
to get over that hurdle.
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