RE: On the right foot. . .

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What is IBM's direction?  With the shift to iSeries, it seems that IBM is
> throwing it's weight to Java.  Are there long term plans to continue to
> develop and extend the legacy languages?  How will the legacy
> languages cope
> with Linux on the AS/400?

Everyone I hear from at the Toronto office is very committed to the legacy
languages.  There was just an email sent out to get some input from the user
community at large as to what things we might like to see in upcoming
versions of the RPG compiler.  Some of it was VERY cool, like a direct file
type for IFS files, data queues and sockets.  What they will have the money
to implement is a different issue, of course, but I definitely think it
would be premature to say that RPG is dead <smile>.

Joe

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