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

Scott Klement said;
<SNIP>
> On the other hand, though, theres something to be said for making
> RPG a more mainstream language.   I mean -- lets face it -- its
> almost completely unknown outside of the IBM Midrange arena.
<SNIP>

I made the "Now that we have 'CF' will we get RPG on Linux"  statement as a
joke.
The reason you won't see RPG on other platforms is that 80% of what 
you like about RPG has nothing to do with the language,  It's really OS/400.
Things like;

Error handling (*PSSR, etc)
Chains, Reade's Readpe's, etc (you might get embedded SQL as your only I/O)
Program status D/S
File Info D/S
NO workstation files.
Externally Defined D/S's
etc
etc

John Carr

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