Re: RPG, 10 years from now

["Captain Jerry" <captainjerry@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that my 9-month-old daughter will be in her late thirties someday,
like me, discussing the greatly exaggerated death of RPG, on her brain-scan
fingernail-embedded communicator to the Solar-System-Wide-Web
(ssww.RPG.com<http://ssww.rpg.com/>
)

ROFL ~ Good stuff, did you ever write for Star Trek?

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On 5/26/06, Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thinking that the new waves of systems and languages will cause RPG to go
> away, is like thinking that the Internet will kill the newspapers.  They
> have survived the invention of Radio AND TV.  I know people that have been
> programming RPG longer than I have been... alive.
>
> Bottom line, in my opinion, as long as big companies are willing to invest
> the iSeries (or whatever it is called this year) -- a system that works
> with
> unmatched reliability and up-time, a system where RPG is the language of
> choice, they will need us to write the code, and we will need IBM to
> support
> the lingo.
>
> I believe that my 9-month-old daughter will be in her late thirties
> someday,
> like me, discussing the greatly exaggerated death of RPG, on her
> brain-scan
> fingernail-embedded communicator to the Solar-System-Wide-Web (
> ssww.RPG.com)
>
> On 5/26/06, steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > HI - This is a Friday topic. But, I was having a conversation w/ the
> > company Controller. He indicated that he was concerned regarding the
> long
> > term support for the RPG language. He is not an IT guy, but is very
> > industry savvy.
> >
> > I immediatly laughed and said no way, the support will always be there.
> >
> > Then he got me to thinking, what if he is right?
> >
> > Does anyone else share this concern?
> >
> > Steve
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