Re: VARPG (was Design Change Requests)

Ok, I understand.  I'm an interested observer because the AS400 pays my 
mortgage if I can keep working on it and I'm wondering why it lost popularity 
and why IBM abandoned it.  I'm not an rpg programmer and I'm always interested 
in much of what you folks have to say.  
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:13:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: VARPG (was Design Change Requests)


Why? For years I saw people selling applications easier than us only because
they have a GUI. No matter if the programs where bad designed or not stable
but nice looking. VARPG provide it without having to change language and,
important too, managed by Ibm itself (no mix between vendors). But since so
few use VARPG the actual state of the art is OLD if compared to other
platforms (not only .net/vb, also unix/linux). They just keep up with
Iseries RPG but there is no real developement.

That's why I say we all missed a chance.

Marco

P.S. What do you mean with "interested observer" ?

--- fbocch2595@xxxxxxx wrote:

> A question from an interested observer, why was this chance missed?  
>  
>  


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