Re: Advantages of RPG

I'll take a shot at a few things here - maybe a little more detailed than Michael's reply!! ;-)

1. It's origins are in report generation, a specific business function.
2. It simplifies file processing as no other language does, it seems - just try opening files in C sometime!
3. It is an efficient coding language - fixed form for all its initial difficulties to learn, is very compact. Free form C-specs keeps much of the compactness of fixed form without needing to know the arcane column positions.
4. It natively uses data types that fit business requirements - currency is not best handled with floating point, e.g.

That's all I can think of for now.
Vern

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From: "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>

RPG is the best...that's why it's the most widely used.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:53 AM, David FOXWELL wrote:

I've read several times lately in articles that, in the author's opinion, RPG

is the best language for business logic.

For a programmer who has very little knowledge of the world outside RPG and CL

( like me for instance ) that is difficult to question.

Could those of you who KNOW RPG is best explain very simply, why?
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