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There's been some discussion both on and off the list about what EGL bodes for the future of the platform and specifically RPG. I've been pretty clear in my opinion that EGL may be the best thing to happen to RPG since the display file, but I've heard a lot of muttering that "IBM is going to kill RPG".

To find the truth, you have to recognize that IBM isn't a single monolithic entity. While there is definitely a segment of the EGL team that believes EGL can do anything RPG can do, another segment understands full well that there are billions of lines of RPG code out there - the last thing I read was that we're actually *adding* four billion lines a year - and that a fundamental requirement of efficient modernization involves taking advantage of that legacy code... and those legacy programmers!

If you'd like to see a discussion of this issue that falls more in line with this view of modernization, go here:

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/i5/february08/qa/19749p1.aspx

Joe

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