Re: RPG naming

JMHO:

It won't matter very much to us.  we know what it is, what it can do,
and appreciate it's value.  renaming it might make us feel better
about discussing what we do at dinner parties though.

it won't matter to existing non-iseries IT professionals/language
bigots.  they will see it as nothing more than putting lipstick on a
pig, and will pay little attention.  It will have about as much an
impact as as/400 -> iseries -> i5.

meaning, not much.  nearly everywhere I go, they still call it AS/400.
 even if they changed the name, they'd still call it RPG on AS/400.

oh well...


On 10/11/05, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At the risk of slightly pounding my own drum:
>
> MCPressOnline just published my latest article, this one on why RPG is
> not quite dead yet, and in fact is one of the most powerful and most
> evolving languages available today.
>
> Several readers chimed in both in email and in the forums, and the issue
> of renaming RPG came up a couple of times.  I had a sudden inspiration
> and I answered that maybe we should call it DB2/PL!  SQL has its own
> processing language, and for the longest time, RPG has been DB2's
> processing language (long before the database was even called DB2, in
> fact).
>
> Think of it.  It's reminiscent of SQL/PL, which is hot, hot, hot these
> days.  It ties the language to a pretty highly respected database,
> instead of to Report Generation.  And it opens up the possibility of
> porting down the road.  In fact, if all you have is embedded SQL, it
> shouldn't be too hard to enhance VARPG to generate the appropriate code
> for any database.  Things like CHAIN are a little more problematic, but
> that's a different issue for a different day.
>
> Anyway, just thoughts.  If you want to check it out, the article is
> here:
>
> http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.6b2a7977
>
> Joe
>
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