Re: programming language genealogy

["Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can post your comments about the missing RPG to
http://www.digibarn.com/talk/index.html
I included a brief explanation of the still wide-use of RPG
The chart mentions the "green" line as having "thousands of users".
I think we should count as tens or hundreds of thousands of coders,
and multi-millions of end users.
I do think it is worthwhile to educate the masses on what are the
current business languages in today's computing. This is like 
IBM leaving the iSeries out of some publications when 
talking about Websphere.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: programming language genealogy


>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: programming language genealogy
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> >You could probably lobby them to include it on the chart.  It does meet
> >the criteria explained at the top.  But after they submitted it would
> >probably be colored orange, (just to get your blood pressure up).
>
> No, I dont seem to be a very good lobbyist.
>
> I would classify RPG as a framework type of a language, while the ones on
> the chart are procedural. ( but then, postscript is on the chart and that
> has some framework aspects to it. )
>
> In the original RPG framework, the programmer specified the files in one
> location, filling in the prompts for how the file was to be used.  Same
for
> matching records, level breaks, and output header and detail.  Then in the
> calcs there were conditioning indicators to control at what place in the
run
> cycle that code was to run.
>
> Other computer companies back in the day did not have similar languages
that
> customers would use to get their systems to do useful work?
>
> -Steve
>
>
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