RE: ?Withdrawal of RPG/400 compiler?

Interesting.
Now how do I go about sending a retraction email to the rest of the team 
when I got excited and told them all the compiler was going away.....
Maybe none of them will read it lol.

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 >> Jon ... You write for the rag.  What's the source of the announcement?

As best I can tell Rob it was a combination of wishful thinking combined
with a small misunderstanding of what George Farr meant when he said 
during
a COMMON  presentation that "RPG/400 is dead ... D . E . A . D ." (or 
words
to that effect).  Those remarks were taken as a statement of IBM's intent 
to
discontinue the compiler.

As a result of George's remarks, the demise of the RPG/400 compiler was
suggested as a topic for the magazine poll - and instead of the poll 
saying
"What would be the effect IF ...." it was phrased a little more "crisply"
.....

Personally I think it is a wonderful idea ... or at least that there 
should
be an additional charge for using it ... but while IBM have undoubtedly
thought about that, it is not on the immediate horizon as far as I know.

Made for an interesting thread though hasn't it <grin>

Jon Paris
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