Re: RPG,COBOL or JAVA

I'm too old to switch and still be useful as a programmer.  

Still, I feel there is a change going on.  You've heard me talk about beginning 
to use Visual Age RPG for applications and I am more convinced then ever that 
this is a tool that is useful now, today, for us dyed in the wool RPG grunts.  
I am amazed how quickly major pieces of an application can be put together, and 
how excited the users get when they see their data in ways they've never seen 
it before.

In other words, I think there may be a useful middle road we can travel.  The 
road to java doesn't have to be a leap from the RPG cliff to the Java shoals, 
it can be a transition.



In <7C5FA2DB9E80BF51852566D3005DE751.0000000000000000@commsoft.net>, on 
12/07/98 
   at 12:09 PM, Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@commsoft.net> said:



> 
>>I personally have not "switched" as all of our 
>>code is RPG, but I can see the day when I'll need 
>>to know how to switch. Prepare now, learn OO design 
>>techniques, look ahead, not back. 

>I think that this is very well said.  An aside is 
>that RPG IV/ILE RPG can help you learn OO while
>you work, rather than have to learn OO AND a new
>language AND a new environment (GUI) all at the
>same time.

>Buck Calabro
>CommSoft, Albany, NY
>mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net




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