i'm so thankful that daily we can receive these wonderful tidbits spewed
forth by 3rd party vendors and a special thanks to Steve for bringing us
these "enlightening and brilliant" commentaries based solely on his
disdain for the platform and the languages upon which hundreds of
thousands of companies entrust their businesses to.
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
From:
Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
02/16/2009 11:37 AM
Subject:
what was the single mgmt decision made in mid-1990s that slowed the
evolution of ILE/RPG?
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From today's ITJungle, there is letter to the editor regarding RPG
being saddled by its legacy codebase.
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021609-story06.html
There is a reference in the letter to an IBM mgmt decision that
stopped RPG and ILE from evolving into a language like C# or Java.
What decision would that have been and why was it made?
"... Tackling the pure language question first. RPG has been evolving
steadily over the last 30 years or so. Unfortunately, it hasn't
evolved quickly or far enough and, if I am to believe people I have
worked with that were on the original ILE team at IBM, that could go
down to a single management decision back in the mid-1990s on how far
to take the language. If that evolution were given a shot in the arm
and a strategic future by initiating an open source community to
develop it, as you are suggesting, what would it end up like? Probably
like C# or Java in all likelihood. ..."
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