Re: New RPG programmers

[Michael Jacobsen <MJacobsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah and I even had a couple assembly classes.  Cobol and Rpg are/were use 
primarily in a business environment for creating reports, which is why I 
thought they were similar.


rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/05/2004 03:18:47 PM:

> I think assembly is close to RPG in terms of syntax restrictions
> 
> On Nov 5, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Michael Jacobsen wrote:
> 
> > No gray hair here either!  I just graduated college in August with an 
> > MIS
> > degree, and have been programming in RPG IV since June.  I had never 
> > even
> > heard of RPG or the AS/400 before I took this job.  The closest thing 
I
> > learned to RPG in college was COBOL.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/05/2004 02:15:56 PM:
> >
> >> Does the community see where the new crop of RPG programmers is 
coming
> > from?
> >> A few long term iSeries sites are evaluating the "graying" of the
> > community
> >> (see the MCPress survey).  They are deciding whether to invest in 
> >> "new"
> > RPG
> >> coders as employees and instead only use contractors as the resource.
> >>
> >> Gregory A. Garner
> >> Garner Data Systems, Inc.
> >> 4270 Grand Teton Parkway
> >> Suwanee, GA 30024
> >> Phone: 770 845 9636
> >> Fax:   770 614 3496
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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