Re: RPG, 10 years from now

["Captain Jerry" <captainjerry@xxxxxxxxx>]

Too funny.  So you use to write for "Star Trek: The Animated Series?"

On 5/26/06, Holden Tommy <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> LOL at least it wasn't the Associated-Solar-Systems-Wide-Web then we'd
> have assww.RPG.com or would it be Wide-Web-Associated-Solar-Systems
> Wide-ass.RPG.com???
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tommy Holden
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Captain Jerry
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:06 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: RPG, 10 years from now
>
> 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?
>
> ===========================================
>
>
> 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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