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Thinking that the new waves of systems and languages will cause RPG to go
away, is like thinking that the Internet will kill the newspapers.  They
have survived the invention of Radio AND TV.  I know people that have been
programming RPG longer than I have been... alive.

Bottom line, in my opinion, as long as big companies are willing to invest
the iSeries (or whatever it is called this year) -- a system that works with
unmatched reliability and up-time, a system where RPG is the language of
choice, they will need us to write the code, and we will need IBM to support
the lingo.

I believe that my 9-month-old daughter will be in her late thirties someday,
like me, discussing the greatly exaggerated death of RPG, on her brain-scan
fingernail-embedded communicator to the Solar-System-Wide-Web (ssww.RPG.com)

On 5/26/06, steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HI - This is a Friday topic. But, I was having a conversation w/ the
company Controller. He indicated that he was concerned regarding the long
term support for the RPG language. He is not an IT guy, but is very
industry savvy.

I immediatly laughed and said no way, the support will always be there.

Then he got me to thinking, what if he is right?

Does anyone else share this concern?

Steve
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