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> -----Original Message----- > From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [SMTP:boldt@ca.ibm.com] > Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 9:00 AM > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > Subject: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret) > > > > eric wrote: > > You can't teach something that student's don't want to learn (or > attend). > > "RPG isn't cool". > > > > I'd be the last person to try to argue against that. To > illustrate, compare CGI programming in RPG versus Perl. > [Bradley V. Stone] I'd much rather code CGI in RPG than Perl. Mainly because I know RPG better than Perl. Teach someone the basics of RPG programming and you've got a language that you could do application programming AND CGI programming with. All with virtually the same programmin methods, yet different output mechanisms. > > Now, let's assume that being "cool" is a desirable > quality in a programming language. If we were to try to > change RPG from an "uncool" language to a "cool" language, > is there a single easy thing we could do to improve the > language? > [Bradley V. Stone] Free format would be the biggest help. Getting rid of limits to sizes of file names, field names, variables, etc would the the second. > Cheers! Hans > > Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com > > Bradley V. Stone Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst bvstone@taylorcorp.com > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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