Re: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> 
> Well,
> 


Dear Bob, John, Jon, et al.


RPG programmers are significantly impacted in the efficiency of
producing code in RPG.

(What did he say?)

I have spent more time reading and listening to all of these free form
arguments for years, than it took to LEARN Java. Meanwhile, we are still
cutting bait.

WARNING: The following is a run-on, comma-splice sentence.

This thread and others like it, for example, the almost identical thread
that ran, what, 5 years ago, on compuserve (remember?) have convinced me
that one of two things need to happen: 1. Get a standards body together
outside of IBM and force them to build compilers to THOSE standards (HA!
FAT CHANCE!) or 2. Learn a new language, code in THAT language and sit
back while all of this RPG stuff goes on for another 5 years.

I am leaning (Leaning! Hell! COBOL, C, C++ and Java work today for me!)
to the second.

Did he say COBOL?  <VBG>
Hey, they have the CF spec, without the CF!

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