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One of the hazy issues hanging over the head of the EGL language is its
long-term goal. Is EGL intended to be a replacement for RPG, or a
complement to it? Like many things, I think it depends upon whom you
talk to at IBM. One of the mistakes I've made in the past is to
consider IBM as a monolithic entity with consistent goals, but that's
far from the truth. In reality, there are factions inside of IBM just
as there are in any large corporation, and sometimes the left hand and
the right hand aren't quite in sync.
Personally, I can tell you that the EGL team has made significant
investment in making sure that EGL works with the IBM i, and
specifically with existing ILE code. The biggest example of that is the
persistent connection, which allows us to take advantage of all the
power of the ILE environment while still presenting multiple interfaces
to the outside world.
But I think it's important that we talk about this. For your company,
would it be more important that IBM focus on providing tools that allow
EGL to act as a thin interface to your existing ILE, or are you more
interested in using EGL to write brand new platform-independent
applications?
Or is it a little bit of both?
Joe
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