RE: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)

[eric <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure there is anything that can be done.  It's a perception problem 
which is resolvable through marketing which IBM doesn't do well.  Now  JAVA 
is cool but the perception is that while JAVA does cool color graphics, 
RPG/COBOL can only do green (or amber) and since the AS/400 only does 
green, it can't do JAVA (or CGI). That's not cool or sexy.

Eric Kempter
CommAir Mechanical Services, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From:   boldt@ca.ibm.com [SMTP:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent:   Monday, May 10, 1999 7:00 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.

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?

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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