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From today's ITJungle, there is letter to the editor regarding RPG
being saddled by its legacy codebase.
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021609-story06.html
There is a reference in the letter to an IBM mgmt decision that
stopped RPG and ILE from evolving into a language like C# or Java.
What decision would that have been and why was it made?
"... Tackling the pure language question first. RPG has been evolving
steadily over the last 30 years or so. Unfortunately, it hasn't
evolved quickly or far enough and, if I am to believe people I have
worked with that were on the original ILE team at IBM, that could go
down to a single management decision back in the mid-1990s on how far
to take the language. If that evolution were given a shot in the arm
and a strategic future by initiating an open source community to
develop it, as you are suggesting, what would it end up like? Probably
like C# or Java in all likelihood. ..."
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