Re: VARPG

[Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxx]

I've also experimented with VARPG, but not in a business environment.

When my son was learning multiplication/division tables in school, I made 
a small program to test him (this was 2 years ago).

Just stand-alone on a pc, no iSeries involved.

Worked like a charm, the teacher was very enthousiastic.

And I'll be doing it again, as he got new pc's, and I somehow managed to 
forget saving the sources when I re-installed Windows on my laptop ;-)

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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I know Claus has already mentioned that IBM Support can be used for 
VARPG issues (and I also read the comment about a PMR that was open for 
8 months and not resolved -- I had a PMR open for over 14 months that 
was never resolved, but it wasn't for VARPG; sometimes it happens.)

It's hard to pin down the value of having IBM support behind a product. 
(Even if their record isn't perfect.)

And the move to event-driven programming is no small leap to make for 
procedural programmers. VARPG gives both a GUI IDE and event-driven 
programming, but the language is at least recognizable. VARPG doesn't 
require that significant business-logic be coded in it. It can be used 
almost purely for presentation if that's what's wanted.

My first VARPG app years ago was a simple desktop calendar that I could 
click days in order to maintain a trivial to-do list. Useful? Not 
really. But I learned how to use various parts, how to act on events, 
how to manage parent- and child-windows, how to do just about everything 
simply to work in the product. Took most of the day.

Tom Liotta