Re: The future of VARPG -- CODE400-L

I have always marveled at IBM's ability to keep a lot of balls in the air at once, and take advantage of opportunities. Her agility, considering her mass and volume, is impressive.

Again, my opinion, but VARPG is a solution that works. Its attractive to users, fast for developing applications, and uses the skills that we RPGers already have. There is so much stuff out there that has real promise but never quite materializes for one reason or another that it seems to me to be prudent for every System i shop to at least consider this product, since Windows is so pervasive.

Anyway, my point is that shops that do look seriously at VARPG quite often like what they see. It doesn't take a very big IBM staff to keep VARPG in sync with Windows and with RPG, so I see every possibility that a few shops will continue to move towards VARPG as their other web-enhancing applications flounder and falter for lack of trained staff, unrealistic expectations, and poor design choices. Should the unlikely happen, and VARPG begin to attract users in the hundreds then IBM will be in a position to light a fire and start the VARPG broth boiling again.

I know, I know.

Kurt Anderson wrote:

I had read something similar to that as well. However, I don't like the
way things happened. To announce that Code is deprecated (whatever that
means exactly) w/o announcing what is happening to the products that use
it is discomforting.

I do enjoy using VARPG, and I hope that IBM's definition of "minimal
effort" is as your example.

Kurt Anderson
Application Developer
Highsmith Inc

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Shaw
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:21 AM
To: code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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 & 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

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