Re: The future of VARPG

Kurt,

Did you see the statement in the WDSCi announcement? If you go to
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&appname=Demonstration&htmlfid=897/ENUS207-030,
click Statement of Direction, and then look under Rich user interface
development, you'll see everything I know. It would be nice if IBM could
expand on that statement, but I wouldn't be surprised if none of our IBMers on
the list are authorized to do that.

My greatest interest is in what they mean by "minimal effort". If I can
install the follow-on to the current VARPG product, open my existing VARPG
projects in it, and have everything work, then that to me is "minimal effort".
I'll be ecstatic if for coding I get to use the LPEX editor with an outline
view just like with green-screen RPG.

In any event, it will be in the 'future release' that they're not saying
anything specific about yet.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Anderson" <kjanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "CODE/400 Discussion &amp; Support" <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:59 AM
Subject: The future of VARPG

I've asked this question elsewhere, and I pretty much get no response.
Since there's been a little traffic on this forum (vs. none), I figure
I'd ask here as well

With the latest release of WDSCi 7.0, it's my understanding that
Code/400 is deprecated. Considering Code/400 is the only (afaik) editor
for VARPG - what does this say about VARPG? Our shop recently decided
to use VARPG for most new user-interface development, and I'd really
like to know what the future of this language will be. Is it being
replaced? Is it going to be deprecated? Will a future release of
WDSCi's LPEX editor support VARPG?

Thanks,

Kurt Anderson