Re: RDi Birthday Celebration

I often running into developers who LOVE PUNCH-Cards. And for some strange reason have "fond memories" of using them...

It is like their first Girl or Boy friend. They brag how they used to have to turn in a deck of punch cards to be compiled in the computer room.

They "brag" how they still work today! See how "smart" they are?

A developer with over 13 years of experience complain to me how "difficult" the %trim is to understand. Instead, they loaded the character data into an array to remove Leading/trailing blanks. Because they KNOW how that works... Wow!

No sense in fighting ignorance. I am NOT their boss, I cannot argue with stubbornness.

I have to laugh, because it is better than crying...

I marvel at human nature to resist change.


-Ken Killian-

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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Art Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 7:03 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi Birthday Celebration

Ken might be the one who loves punch cards. He's the only one that mentions them all the time.

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Got that right! After trying to encourage developers to use RDi. I
have discovered the following:

1.) They do not like change.
2.) They do not like windows with multiple views. They are used to a
single 5250 screen. No multiple views
3.) They do not like shortcut keys. Too hard to remember.
4.)They love punch cards. Learning new stuff is hard.

I know that sounds negative. It is not all developers. But many are
set in their 1970’s time frame. But not all.

You can lead them to water, but if they are stubborn, you are wasting
your time!!! Let them retire already! Wish them luck!

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 10, 2017, at 5:05 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

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From: Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 9:02 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client

for System i & iSeries

Subject: [WDSCI-L] RDi Birthday Celebration

Gosh, just realised it is almost 10-years since RDi 7.1 was
announced, (29th January 2008).

If memory serves correctly, this was the first incarnation of the
unbundled product, which required a separate licence. (It's
forerunner, WDSc 7.0 was part of the server-bundled software, 5xxx-WDS.

A decade has flown by - and we're _still_ trying to convince folk to
adopt it!

Brian.

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