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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:39:52 -0800, "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >And RPG, as a language, has exactly one thing to recommend it ... >"The Cycle." That is hardly fair. What RPG really has to recommend it is that you'll find it on 90+ percent of AS/400's. Usually, RPG is the only bought compiler on the system. The two primary reasons for this is to extend vendor applications which are typically written in RPG, and RPG is the "traditional" AS/400 language. Now, to get back on topic. if we're talking about midrange knowledge and skills, and by midrange we really mean AS/400, then RPG is germane to the discussion. To steal a phrase from Joe Pluta, how many line of business applications have you seen written in Java running on the AS/400, much less another platform? >RPG is >inherently a pain in the fundament to debug, because that rigid source >format makes it a pain in the fundament to trace control structure >nesting. One of the nice things about the columnar layout is that arguments (factor 1, factor 2) are in the same place and therefore easy to scan by eye. I've heard that recent versions of OS/400 give RPG a free-form syntax that lets you indent control structures as much as you like. Loyd -- Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late. <http://www.despair.com/> loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ#504581 http://www.blackrobes.net/
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