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Bob, As a vendor of an iSeries programmer productivity tool, I thank you for your poll and your article on Third-Party Software, and I agree almost completely with your conclusions (and frustration). I have spent four decades observing hundreds (really thousands) of IBM mid-range programmers flounder along producing half or less what they should be producing because they are not using available Third-Party productivity tools effectively. Programmers will use productivity tools like a pen, and paper, a calculator, and an occasional programming book without considering how much more effective and valuable they are by using them, while simply ignoring incredibly valuable and useful software productivity tools as if they diminished the perceived skills needed by a programmer. I also have been a contract programmer or consultant programmer at dozens of companies, both large and small. The shops that invested in critical programmer software productivity tools always seemed to get far more out of their in-house programmers and out of me and to develop superior and higher quality applications. Out-sourcing programming work makes it imperative that in-house programmers who plan to survive be as good as they can be. That means utilizing all of their capability aided by powerful productivity tools that their competitors routinely use.
** This thread discusses the article: Third-Party Software **
Bob, As a vendor of an iSeries programmer productivity tool, I thank you for your poll and your article on Third-Party Software, and I agree almost completely with your conclusions (and frustration). I have spent four decades observing hundreds (really thousands) of IBM mid-range programmers flounder along producing half or less what they should be producing because they are not using available Third-Party productivity tools effectively. Programmers will use productivity tools like a pen, and paper, a calculator, and an occasional programming book without considering how much more effective and valuable they are by using them, while simply ignoring incredibly valuable and useful software productivity tools as if they diminished the perceived skills needed by a programmer. I also have been a contract programmer or consultant programmer at dozens of companies, both large and small. The shops that invested in critical programmer software productivity tools always seemed to get far more out of their in-house programmers and out of me and to develop superior and higher quality applications. Out-sourcing programming work makes it imperative that in-house programmers who plan to survive be as good as they can be. That means utilizing all of their capability aided by powerful productivity tools that their competitors routinely use.
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