Re: Describing RPG IV -- RPG400-L

Doug,

Just out of curiosity, for whom and to what purpose is this paragraphdirected? The audience will (should, anyway) dictate how the paragraphis formulated. There is, as you know, usually a world of differencebetween the audience at Midrange-RPG and an English Lit. class. Or evena .Net programmer.



Like I said, just curious.


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Doug Palme wrote:

Thanks Aaron,
I'll be rewriting it and will post it again once I have made the changes.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of albartell
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:08 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Describing RPG IV

One other place to look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG_programming_language  I don't know who
maintains that particular topic in wikipedia so I don't know if it is
slanted at all.

I would also add something in regards to the second to none ease of record
level DB access.  I didn't realize how much I LOVE this feature until I
started doing a lot of Java and PHP programming.

To expand on David's post I would declare the ILE environment and its
ability to open doors for interaction with many different languages like
Java, C, COBOL, etc.

On last note I would even consider starting the paragraph out with "The name
RPG poorly describes the dynamic language we have today..."

My $.02,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Douglas Palme
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:43 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Describing RPG IV

I have been asked to write a one paragraph description of the RPG IV
programming language and thought I'd submit something here to everyone and
get their feedback.

Here is what I have come up with so far, feel free to make any suggestions:

"RPG IV is a high level language developed exclusively for the IBM iSeries
system. It is superior to many other languages due to its integration into
the i5OS operating system, stability as a programming language, and backward
compatability.  RPG IV has the ability to process data in both ineractive
and batch modes, and it also interfaces with the apache web server."



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