RE: those darn newfangled languages WAS: RPG I

I couldn't agree more.  Well, maybe I could but I think agreeing once is 
sufficient.  =)

message: 5
date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:41:52 -0600
from: "albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: those darn newfangled languages WAS: RPG III

1) Make the language 100% free form.  This, coupled with WDSC's color 
coded
LPEX editor, will go along way in many developer camps.

2) For lack of a better way to say this... Allow the environment to be
"aliased" out of its name length restrictions.  Drives me nuts to have to
use 10 char names. (yes I know this is more of system change than 
anything).
Add a thin layer, what ever IBM need to do, just allow that to change.

3) Build a seamless, non-Java/non-Websphere, framework that allows RPG to
incredibly easily talk to the browser (just like how our DB access is
incredibly easy).  I firmly believe that this could make non-iSeries shops
flock to the iSeries.  Don't believe me?  Take a look at Microsoft's .NET.
Take a look at Ruby On Rails.  RPG programmers don't want to have to have 
a
PHD in computer science and open source to be able to modernize their
iSeries apps.  They want to get'r done without layers upon layers of
technology that have layers upon layers of failure points. Sometimes
adopting community technologies (i.e. JavaServer Faces, Hibernate) isn't a
good idea because the community has never experienced a language, like 
RPG,
that has solid UI and DB access built right in.