RE: Java replacing RPG (was LANSA) and accuracy of attribution

As the attributor, I should point out that the 2015 was in answer to a how
long will RPG be around question.  I didn't get the impression he was saying
that that was when IBM would pull the plug.  It sounded to me like he pulled
a number out of the air that seemed to be sufficiently far away to indicate
that RPG wasn't going to go away real soon now.  I didn't want to create the
impression that 2015 meant any more than "a long time yet."

As I remember, my dad had a speech on literal mindedness he used to deliver
a lot when I was a kid.  Naturally it was when my brother, sister, or I
didn't pick up on the symbolic significance of whatever he was saying.  I
find that in middle age, it's also my fault when others take what I say
literally.  Can't win.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Pence [mailto:rp@rogerpence.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 11:32 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Java replacing RPG (was LANSA)
> 
> 
>  RPG like COBOL will be around for a
> >very long time yet (certainly long enough for most of us to 
> retire).  This
> is
> >not to say that Java is not important - it is - but until it 
> can do complex
> >functions like printing <bg> it will have a problem replcing 
> all your RPG
> code.
> 
> 
> Jon, Jon, Jon,
> 
> Lordy I love to take issue with you.
> 
> The point isn't one of "replacement" and you know it! We all 
> know that RPG
> and Cobol will be with us forever (not the arbitrary 16 
> years, as accurately
> or not, attributed to George Farr). 
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