Hello,
(for whatever reason, replying to your messages yields a solely private reply. Hence sending it again to the list.)
Am 26.07.2025 um 13:46 schrieb Infodorado InfoDorado <infodorado@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
IBM didn't invent planned obsolescence
That was not my allegation.
They figured probably correctly that they would lose a good part of their client base if they moved too fast.
Indeed. Example: Compare the initial RPG III (or IV) with all-free of today. What I've gleaned from examples is that all-free is not RPG anymore. It's a different language with completely different syntax. But IBM called it RPG to not put off developers. One (of many) thing, they did right. IMHO.
(I never cared to learn "free", mainly because my main machine runs V4R5 with "only" classic RPG IV being available. As a hobbyist, programming things in a positional language doesn't by far not yield the same pain others experience. :-) )
:wq! PoC
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