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Just another direction on this. Don't know if this has been said because
I have not been reading all the responses but it seems to me the
question of whether RPG is dead is misplaced.
The real question is whether people will use RPG/ILE and it's
capabilities and move forward.
You can say that RPG is not dead but what good does it do if 80% of the
programmers are still hacking RPG III or RPG III in RPG IV?
Refusal to move forward kills the language just as effectively as not
having it available.
If people on this platform will not move forward, companies will go to
platforms where people will move forward.
Having the best computer in the world means absolutely nothing if
programmers are still writing RPG monolith programmers with business
logic in fifty different programs and then trying to maintain the mess.
RPG/ILE is an excellent backend language but it has to be used.
The big question is "Can RPG programmers move forward to a modern
world".
Sticking to the old monolith world kills the language just as
effectively.
The jury is still out but at this point it does not look good.
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