Re: Is RPG 'DEAD"

<SNIP>no try ... catch .... </SNIP>

Then what is???

Monitor;
On-Error;
EndMon;


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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/18/2008 11:18:20 AM:

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:41 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Adam West wrote:

We have been searching for a new ERP package. In additon to looking
at RPG Iseries based, we hired a consultant to assist in this
endeavour. He has made a statement that RPG is Dead, that he claims,
IBM guys told him so.

I am interested in opinions and links to the contrary on this,

COBOL has been dead for years. Nobody told the COBOL programmers

though.

COBOL is inferior to RPG because you cant modularize your code with
parameters on a perform statement. RPG is inferior to Java and C#
because of memory leaks, no try ... catch .... finally blocks, no
property setters and getters, no delegates, no data struct member
functions, no virtual functions, ....

RPG is OK, but C# and Java are more feature rich.
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