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While i realise it's not the norm about 85% or more of the coding i do is
new code not maintenance (and i like it that way!!!)



From: "D*B" <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date: 02/17/2012 04:08 AM
Subject: RE: Is RPG dying
Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



... RPG is as dead or as alive as any other programming language and so it
can't die. its no human beeing, nor animal, nor plant and so its dead from
its very beginning.

Another questions is: who is using RPG today and maybe tomorrow and the
answer is: its a shrinking market and there are very few projects to
write new software using RPG. I would not recommend any newcomer to trust
in the RPG market, but I don't see any reason for well educated RPG
programmers to leave the RPG sector in panic, there are a lot of companies
sitting on RPG written applications, needing maintenance of the code to
adopt changing business rules and eliminateing bugs (there might be lots
of bugs to fix!).

In any case it might be a good idea, in particular for freelancers to have
a look to the mainstream, from time to time and to learn from the
mainstream to survive in the RPG niche.

Dieter,

who is fun driven and made the transition from RPG to Java, just for fun!

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