Re: maintaining skills

I'm not trying start a firestorm here or rattle anybody's cages. But, a 
curiosity search on Google using "Popular Programming Language" turned up 
the following link at Developer.com. Nowhere on this list is RPG. I know 
this is a mailing list for the iseries which means pretty much 
RPG-related. But, if you're an out of work (RPG) programmer looking for a 
job, you may want to consider some additional education to help you get 
that next job. 

In short, I think all of us here need to face the reality that the light 
is dimming for RPG, and the iSeries in general. That's not to say it won't 
still be around for awhile, but "facts is facts", and that says that the 
bulk of new development, new applications are being written in other 
languages than RPG. To deny this fact, is like sticking your head in the 
sand. 

http://www.developer.com/lang/other/article.php/3448451

Note: this is as of December 2004.


Position Programming Language Ratings Change Status 
1  C                  19.696% +1.22% A 
2  Java               16.332% -8.68% A 
3  C++                11.914% -5.51% A 
4  PHP                11.448% +5.71% A 
5  (Visual) Basic      8.168% +0.93% A 
6  Perl                7.420% -1.51% A 
7  SQL                 3.445% +0.52% A 
8  Python              3.029% +1.93% A 
9  Delphi/Kylix        2.977% +2.15% A 
10  C#                 1.947% +0.24% A 
11  JavaScript         1.595% -0.14% A 
12  SAS                1.416% +0.61% A 
13  COBOL              0.985% +0.20% A 
14  IDL                0.774% +0.36% A-- 
15  ABAP               0.735% +0.49% A-- 
16  Lisp               0.598% +0.09% B 
17  Pascal             0.562% +0.07% B 
18  Fortran            0.499% -0.06% B 
19  Ada                0.462% -0.08% B 
20  MATLAB             0.444% +0.20% B 





Ron Adams





Kenneth H Werner <KHWerner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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        To:     rob@xxxxxxxxx
        cc:     MIDRANGE-JOBS@xxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject:        Re: maintaining skills


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You can ignore this message if you still believe in the AS/400 and 
continue to build their skills on it.

The only enemy the AS/400 has is the unfaithful population that say 
AS/400 is dead while for years earning a living from what they curse. 
For the population that would tell Brad Day the AS/400 is dead, i5 is 
the latest family of the dead AS/400 so you can understand the quotes. 

Brad Day of Forrester Research in his January 1995 report "IBM's i5: The 
'Swiss Army Knife' of Virtualization" says.

Based on the benchmark, IBM's i5 "delievers proof that the iSeries is 
the one to beat" for virtualization. The "benchmark clearly demostrate 
that users can get higher utilization and ROI on their computer 
resources by using IBM's i5".

Yes, its dead!

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>*** Please pay close attention when replying to a message on this list!
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>I did reply earlier, but didn't send a copy to the list.  A list of time 
>sharing services are in the faq.
>
>http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/423.html
>
>Rob Berendt
> 
>


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