RPG V?

But i would advise to learn OO first, then HTML/Javascript etc etc. OO is a
powerful concept, nothing more or less, applicable also toa procedural
language like RPG, although it doesn't support objectsnatively (among other
things). OO is about thinking about codestructure and modularisation in a
specific way, where you organizeyour code arround data (or state/variables).
E.g. the "readCustomer"procedure "belongs" to a "customer" object. You can
group all theprocedures for "customer" together into one module or service
programand voila, you're already doing some OO. Of course, it helps if
you're language supports it, but then again,in RPG we have RLE.

To answer:

I learned VB.NET and was involved in a few projects and wrote a small
project .NET pretty much forces you into OO.

I disiplined myself when writing an imaging sub-system in RPG to separate my
buisness logic and interfaces with OO. And not use any tags. But if the
majority of my co-workers had to go in an maintain that system, I know it
would land back on my lap. At least we can say all of our programs are type
RPGLE. I bet there are shops out there with tons of RPG types.

I know when you use OO in RPG, it does help you when are jumping into
something like VB.NET. PHP is similar to RPG from what I have seen in that
OO is not forced, but certainly encouraged.

Tom Deskevich