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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.) --------------------------------- Booth Martin http://www.martinvt.com --------------------------------- -------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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