RE: Green screen to GUI

IBM did create software that is very Visual Basic-like, except it used RPGIV
for the coding.  It really does work, it really is out there, and you
already own it.   

But very very few people use it.   I spent a lot of time learning how to use
it and built several applications with it. It really is nifty, relatively
fast, and users love it.  But almost no shops use it.  I never could figure
out why not.

If you want to see what it looks like:

http://www.martinvt.com/Code_Samples/FAQ-VARPG/faq-varpg.html

These two screen shots are Windows and Java, side by side, both written
using Visual Age RPG (the RPG code is shown, too.)
 
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 09/21/05 10:26:58
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI
 
For business logic?  Heck no.  BASIC is a crappy language for business
logic.  RPG is much better.
 
What you want is a seamless integration between a platform-agnostic UI
definition language and an RPG back end.  The sad thing is that IBM
could do that today by tying the UML portion of Rational to a back-end
RPG generator.
 
Joe
 
> From: Shannon O'Donnell
>
> Amen brother.
>
> Personally, (and this is going to get me booed on this list...) I
would
> love to see a port of MS Visual Basic to the iSeries.
 
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