Re: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"

["Scott Klement" <infosys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems to me that most of the die-hard unix people are going to
stick with C, perl, shell scripts, or one of the other 50,000,000
languages on the unix platform.

However, having RPG on Unix (especially a free Unix like Linux or
FreeBSD) would be a big boon to people who want to run something
like this at HOME...

Its nearly impossible to get an AS/400 at home, unless you've got
huge amounts of cash to invest in it.  :)

Of course, the big problem with having a really good RPG compiler
on a Unix machine (again, especially a free one like Linux) is that
a company could set up a Unix machine on their LAN, move all their
existing applications over, and get rid of the old AS/400.  This
is why I doubt IBM will ever write a compiler for Linux.

On the other hand, though, theres something to be said for making
RPG a more mainstream language.   I mean -- lets face it -- its
almost completely unknown outside of the IBM Midrange arena.


"Joep Beckeringh" <joepb@tip.nl> wrote:
> > Of all the people who program for Linux (and other Unix
> > compatible OS/s), how many would choose RPG over other
> > languages currently available on those systems?  A port
> > may make RPG more accessible, but would Linux hackers
> > use it?
> >
> > Cheers!  Hans
>
> Well, if only you could make them believe it's a really cool languag
>  :-)
>
> Joep Beckeringh
>
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