Hi Bruce
Can you clarify something for me? What are they using instead of SE24? Is it that they are still writing procedural programs?
If so, you might point out then that in the release notes of 7.02 PERFORM is an obsolete statement. Therefore they might as well gear themselves up to either only using Function Modules for modularisation, or go the whole way and begin doing proper OO coding - since fairly soon (or already), what they're doing will be "obsolete".
Further, it they don't learn OO, then they will have grave difficulties continuing to work with ABAP (web dynpro etc., CL_SALV_TABLE). So their choice is, effectively, career limiting.
If they're writing just local classes - well, that's just weird. I mean, SE24 is to objects, what function modules is to reports. Do they not use SE37 either?