Joe,
I have been following the messages about EGL for a while now and I would love to try and learn it, however there are several roadblocks. First of all I have to continue to focus on production issues, that means RPG III (old ERP, don't ask), second I have to be working on new project work for the immediate future, that means Excel, SharePoint, and Informatica. That last point sucks up a lot of time because I'm in the process of learning them while I have a project deadline for each. After all that is done is when I get to spend what little downtime I have to investigating new technologies for use in our shop (not assigned work, that's just what I do). If I download all the bits and pieces I need to try out EGL I will guarantee you that it will take me a couple of weeks to get back to it for the next phase. With a 90 day window that means I have to get a bigger chunk of time to devote to learning it prior to me even starting it so that means it get pushed even farther into the future.
I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that if I can't get started on something because I'm going to run out of a demo period, especially for a product that I'm going to have to justify some cost for later, it just makes it harder to do.
Suggestions?
Douglas Belcher
KV Pharmaceutical
St Louis, MO
Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer
-----Original Message-----
From: egl-i-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:egl-i-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion; RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries; EGL on and around the IBM i
Subject: [EGL-i] EGL and RPG - The Fastest Path to the Future
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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