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> Just heard at my local user group that at Common, "top IBMers" had
> told a "vocal proponent of RPG" when asked when we would be getting
> major enhancements like direct GUI and WEB ability, that IBM was no
> longer enhancing RPG and that all future development is going to
> other "newer" languages.
Interesting. I have a feeling that I'm the "top proponent" that you're
referring to, and that the message has been garbled somewhat.
At COMMON, I had a discussion (this was a public discussion in front of
perhaps 75 people) with some top IBMers (Frank Soltis, Elaine Lennox,
Alison Butterill -- and non-IBMer Bob Tipton) about the future of RPG.
The statements made about GUI and Web is that they're doing some
research in the lab, and that they may or may not produce something in
the future, but that if it's important, we should petition COMMON to
present it to IBM as a requirement.
When asked whether RPG is dead, they said that old-style monolithic RPG
is dead. ( Bob Tipton thinks RPG is completely dead, but he's felt that
way for years, and doesn't really count, since he can't speak for IBM. )
Nobody said anything about IBM stopping their development/enhancements
to RPG!
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