RE: RPG, 10 years from now

-----Original Message-----
From: albartell [mailto:albartell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:28 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RPG, 10 years from now


>>To talk to the blackberry or a web service you need to be able to drop some
>>modular code into your RPG program without affecting other parts of the
>>program.  For that you need namespaces and classes that can inherit from
>>base classes, virtual methods, interfaces, etc.

>I am going to slightly alter your statement because you said you NEED this
>and that. You don't NEED those features to talk to a blackberry.  Having a
>stubbed out program with OO features is nice, but it definitely is not
>needed.  All that is needed is a CGI capable language (which RPG is). 

depends on the context of the word NEED. We, i5 people, have to compete against 
MSFT applications and programmers. To do that we need features in our languages 
that are just as good as what the other side uses. MSFT programmers have loads 
of modern features in their programming languages and run times. IBM 
programmers need the same, otherwise we cannot compete.

-Steve