Re: Latest EGL Features

I love EGL! I've been programming in it for over a year now. I found it very easy to learn coming from a RPG environment. It also helped that I knew SQL. I can't wait to see all the new things coming with the Rich UI. The FREE e-learning classes that Jon Sayles does help a lot too. I would recommend that if any one is interested in learning EGL that they sign up for one of his sessions. IBM even did a case study on our use of EGL at where I work. Here it is:

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/WJBN-73UQN7

It's kind of sad that it doesn't seem to get as much press time as the other languages. I attended the New England User Group Conference (NEUGC) last week, and there was barley a mention of it. There seemed to be a lot more mentioned about PHP. I don't mean to offend any PHP programmers out there I just prefer EGL. Keep up the good work Joe!

Mike
EGL Rocks!

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: Latest EGL Features

Michael Soucy wrote:

Thanks Joe. Great article!

Thanks, Mike. The more I see of EGL, the more incredible it is. I
think people miss one of the fundamental points about the language:
since it truly is a 4GL, that means it can be used to target completely
different environments. The same basic syntax can create COBOL programs
that run on the System i or Java services that run on a Java EE server,
or JavaScript that can run on a browser - and that includes your phone.

We're just scratching the surface. But I wrote four web services in
just a few hours and each one gets easier.

Joe
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