In my limited experience, the right frameworks do make you job easier because they do the grunge work for you, and leave just the business logic for you to code. RPG developers, that I have known, resist frameworks, not because they make thier job harder, but because they can't see everything in one place. I believe that this is mostly because they have resisted the tools they need to make thier lives easier (WDSC/RDi), and stuck to SEU with a religious fervor.
Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/12/2015 05:19PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the median age of the developers in your shop?
Are there traditional IBM i developers making an exclusive switch to web
and mobile development?
I've mentored about half a dozen who have made the switch to developing
browser user interfaces nearly exclusively. Most were senior-level people.
(That is, developers that stop doing RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS and start doing only
PHP, Java, Node.JS, .NET, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript.)
One doesn't have to give up RPG and COBOL to handle requests from browsers
and generate appropriately formatted responses, unless dictated by
employers.
RPG and COBOL programmers tend to resist languages, frameworks, and
developer tools that make it harder to develop applications. They tend to
resist technologies that make their jobs harder.
I'm not sure if this is age-related or not.
midrange.com
