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Hi Charles,

I was commenting on the "every site is multi-platform, at least having
a MS and an iSeries" comment. Of *course* every developer on the IBMi
knows more than one language - we have CL and SQL and REXX, and and
and... And of *course* you can't run RPG in the browser so you need
to know something of the client side language.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
These days, it is necessary to know a number of languages - every site is multi-platform, at least having a MS and an ISeries

That is a lie.  (based on ignorance I am hoping).  John, do you really
believe that?


I'd agree with the first part at least, you need more than one language.

In fact, I'd argue that the root cause of RPG's problems and in turn
part of the platform's problems are that too many RPG developers only
know RPG (and usually RPG III at that!)

I've yet to meet an ILE RPG programmer who doesn't have at least some
familiarity with another language.

Charles

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