Re: New RPG programmers

[Raul Jager <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to contradict you, but RPG works great to produce Web pages.  I'm using 
mostly RPG for web development.  It looks hard for the programmers that only 
know "green screen" but also the  "green screen" is quite hard for beginers, 
specialy sub-files, which you avoid by using the web.

El Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:50, Lim Hock-Chai escribió:
> I agreed with Joe that RPG is not going to go away.  People that think RPG is 
> old or out dated because it can only produce a green screen (which is true 
> unless you are using VRPG).  User are not going to care whether the 
> application is written in RPG, VB, C, C++, Java or whatever.  All they know 
> is green screen is old.
> RPG is a powerful business language (Try to rewrite your invoicing system in 
> java and see what kind of crapie code you going to endup with).
> 
> With that said, (Joe might have to correct me on this, I'm not a web/gui guy) 
> I think RPG shop should start thinking about  replacing DDS with HTML (View) 
> and use java as the controller (Servlet or whatever) the call RPG program 
> that actual doing the work.  Yes, it cost money and green screen is working 
> just fine.  If that is the case in your shop, stay in green (noting is wrong 
> with it).  All I try to said is that, you don't need to get rid of a perfect 
> good language to go gui.
> 
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