Jon,
What would be involved in taking the VARPG architecture and wiring it
into OS400? UI objects could render to browser rich client.... I know
VARPG could compile to Java bytecode, so I wonder why this couldn't be
married to the Java frameworks IBM already supports in it Java stack.
Does anyone know that language VA-RPG was written in?
Just wondering,
Eric DeLong
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:10 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: what was the single mgmt decision made in mid-1990s. period
On 17-Feb-09, at 9:29 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
but it seems to
me that updating RPG and not providing a GUI was putting the cart
before the horse. IBM got that wrong. Of course I am speaking with the
benefit of hindsight.
You bet it's hindsight. RPG IV was introduced what - some 13+ years
ago. The development cycle was at least 3 years (I don't recall now).
The GUI options at the time would have been an X-term type interface or
slaved PCs in client/server mode - neither of which were under serious
consideration in Rochester. Things like the browser that we think of
today when we say GUI weren't really out there at the time.
The timing of RPG IV was in many ways unfortunate - if we'd started it
some three years later it might have been very different.
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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