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I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, but considering I have recently started using RPG I will not claim to be any kind of expert or even a knowledgeable user, but I can say that so far I have been quite impressed with its capabilities. One thing that touches on your comments David, I did a national search about three months ago for iSeries training at a variety of colleges and universities and found that only about 20 nationally even offered a single course. -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:15 PM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Time to get serious Joe Pluta wrote: > In my mind, a programmer that doesn't know about RPG is by definition > not particularly well rounded -- they in fact have a significant hole > in their knowledge of programming. I think that would probably account for the majority of people who have recently completed formal programming training. I just checked the current course catalog for two of the area community colleges (Harper and Prairie State, two that I've attended) and couldn't find a single reference to RPG *OR* COBOL programming classes in their normal AAS program. Java, C++, and VB were all prominent though. (Caveat: I didn't actually look at every course, but their search system seemed fairly good.) College of Dupage seems to have a single RPG programming class (Emphasis on understanding RPG control cycle logic) and a few COBOL classes. Obviously my research is nowhere near exhaustive ... but I suspect you will find that "RPG" is listed in the DP101-Intro to Data Processing class in the "Computer History" category. Of course, I could be wrong :) david -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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