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Lieven De Foor
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It's good to see that I've started some discussion. I think it's important for Progress to realize that, although many existing OpenEdge developers are (only) used to procedural development, if Progress wants to stay in the game they should evolve and move the focus from the old-school to the new-school. I'm still waiting for the moment in a PUG challenge keynote speech where the speaker doesn't emphasize the fact that a lot of attendees are using Progress for 10/20/30 years, but ask the question how many of them are new to Progress in the last couple of months/years. That number would be less encouraging if you ask me... At our company we're also struggling to find new (young) developers willing to start programming in ABL. The image of the language is the major turnoff factor here. Luckily the (older and young) people we currently have are ambitious enough to use and experiment with new features in the language to try and modernize our applications...
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