RE: RPG compiler for Windows survey

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>A)     Are you interested in having RPGIII and RPG IV available as a
>compiled language/development environment on the PC under Windows?
>(YES/NO)

No, although IBM's Visual Age for RPG and ASNA's VRPG already do this.

>B)     Are you willing to pay for such a compiler/development
>environment out of your own pocket? (YES/NO)

No.

>C)     Regardless of whether or not your are willing to pay for it out
>of your own pocket, what is the highest amount you would be willing to
>pay for a pretty good, RPGIII, RPGIV and DDS compiler than allowed your
>generate PC-based applications and provided source code compatibility
>with the AS/400 compiler?

It's missing CL.  I have never once written a midrange RPG program that
didn't get wrapped in OCL or CL.  I demo'd Baby/38 and Baby/400 and they're
just not there yet.  Too much re-write and too little compatibility.
Reading between the lines (perhaps mistakenly), I'd pay  $1000USD for OS/400
for the PC.

  --buck