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  3. June 2007

Re: RPG is Dead? Say it aint so!

On 6/21/07, Cassidy, Alan <CassidyA@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> Please, say it aint so!

>>It ain't so. Not according to George Farr - who as the IBMer in charge of
that whole arena should probably know!

_____"RPG is dead"? Have we heard this before?

But on the subject, can it be much harder to cut-and-paste the UI from EGL,
_if_ it works okay for EGL?

OR, tie in some such routines "under the covers" like they surely have to do in
their C or C++ or whatever they're using to code the compilers?

no, because ILE, which C, C++ and RPG are based on, does not know
managed code like .NET and Java. The fact that the same IBMers in
charge now, like Farr and Herring, missed the managed code wave that
MSFT caught in 2000 is a testament to how poorly IBM is managed. You
cant expect people who have been making mistakes of this magnitude the
last 8 yrs to finally get things right.

-Steve

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