[Gambas-user] OT:Very nice compliments for gambas :))

[Michael Sullivan]

Text has to be entered in specific column positions?  Sounds like RPG
(unfortunately it has nothing to do with popular games like Final
Fantasy.)  I had to take a semester of RPG at college a few years ago. 
It was easy, sort of.  It seemed mostly stupid, since I also learned VB
and COBOL at that college  I really hated the column restriction
though...

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:29, Hans-Martin Bundeshund wrote:
> Salute!
> 
> Today I presented Gambas to some of my mates at work. As I and they work in a 
> IT department, I show the easy usability and simply built a form with some 
> textboxes, a combobox and some other components. Then I inserted 
> MySQL-support. Their Eyes were so wide open! :))
> It was a plesure to see 5 greening people arround my little notebook...
> 
> (I have to say that we work with an iSeries also knowen as an AS400 from IBM. 
> There are some visual tools to work/develop with, because it is not tgat 
> stable and we are told not to use them, so we all work with the green-screen, 
> no graphic, only text-console as a terminal-emulator under win2k; and the 
> programming language I have to use is called 'ILE-RPG'. This language don't 
> have free text (the text hase to be entered at the correct position), you 
> have to fill the text into the right column, if not, you get a syntax 
> error... (Since 2 years, you are able to work with an op-code called '/free'. 
> With this you can write some 'free' text without the column restriction, but 
> not all commands work with this. Horror!)
> 
> They were really enthusiastic about Gambas! Not even that it is free and open 
> source, no, it offers a great and simple to use workbench.
> 
> If you have worked with IBM-tools on Midrange or even greater machines before, 
> you couldn't believe that writing an application can be so easy and 
> comfortable. Unfortunate the iSeries is a *very* stable machine and the 
> performance of the inegrated DB2 is excellent. If only Gambas would 
> communicate with the DB2 under OS/400...
> 
> regards,
> 
> HM
> 
> 
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