Re: Cloud and the future of IBM i -- MIDRANGE-L

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Hello Rob,

Am 06.03.2020 um 15:31 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

When you take a class, or attend a seminar on some new language, technique, etc and you aren't planning on using it for 6 months you tend to lose a lot of what you've learned.

I fully agree.

So, with RPG or whatever if you can't put some into use right away you won't retain it. I really do not think that anyone with no exposure to it would learn it anyway on their own without an immediate opportunity to put it into use.

Why always RPG? There are other "native" languages available. Okay, no further comment on COBOL. ;-) C and C++ once were popular and if you look at what's available in PASE, there's seemingly no limit.

I'd probably would have been starting with C, if the integration of native PF/DSPF API calls would be as easy as it is with RPG. Pity, it's not, so I was lazy and learned RPG to a certain extent. ;-)

Not really where the home hobbyist is going to groove.

I strongly object. :-)

:wq! PoC (self-taught AS/400, iSeries and IBM i hobbyist)

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