Re: Open Source RPG ? -- MIDRANGE-L

David,

I really am not assuming anything. This came up at Town Hall at COMMON, andI think it is a thread worthy of debate. I really do not think it is viableto take a well-developed language like RPG and remove it from a vendor whocontinues to support it, and I do believe that IBM should continue to leadthe way with their RPG language development.

I do think, however, that an open source RPG would have benefits. It is thebest business language available, IMHO, so it would not hurt to be able touse it and port to other platforms. ASNA port to .NET, but this is in a trueobject-oriented, visual development, event driven environment. I think theapplication development part of RPG (forget the UI, forget DDS) would be ofbenefit in many places.

And wouldn't it be nice to have more people RPG-aware than a (primarily)green-focused community?


I like this debate. I think we all know the answer...

But maybe the second question has more validity... Should they change thename? And, to what? Like Scott, I think there are few people who actuallyfocus on it being a 'report' program generator - the language is much moremodern than its roots.

----- Original Message -----From: "David Gibbs"

Subject: Re: Open Source RPG ?

Trevor Perry wrote:

So, let's follow that model:
Have some base version of RPG? Now, add IBM's System i to the mix? Maybe
this way, we could get RPG on some more platforms, have college kidscodingwith it, and expand the RPG community, and the System i community wouldbe
forced to stop calling it an AS/400? :-)


You are assuming that you could get anyone to work on the project.

People work on o/s projects because they are interested in them.  I
seriously question the level of interest that an O/S RPG compiler
project would generate.

david