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Aaron,
I have been on many sites, and every ISeries site was also an MS site ....
Perhaps my phrasing could have been better.
As regards speaking about RPG in relation to OO and UML, while RPG does
conform to many aspects of OO and the ISeries is an object-oriented
architecture, these two concepts (OO and UML) represent the landscape of
software development today and into the future, in which RPG and other
application languages have a place. If we ignore them because they are not
RPG-centric, we are doing ourselves and our customers / users a dis-service,
while at the same time seriously curtailing our own future prospects.
The ISeries is probably the best database computer system around, and RPG is
the best application language for this platform. However, RPG does not
satisfy every facet of the varied world of computing today A computer
system is not a stand-alone system any more, and communication across
systems is the norm. For this reason, I firmly believe in taking the wide
view.
Regards,
John McKay mba
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG Syntax
These days, it is necessary to know a number of languages - every site is
multi-platform, at least having a MS and an ISeries.
That is a lie. (based on ignorance I am hoping). John, do you really
believe that?
To grasp the bigger picture, we also need to be familiar with OO and UML,
and preferably have knowledge specific to a particular industry.
Never hurts to have OO and UML experience, but it is not in the "need"
category. RPG and it's modularity combined with library lists is so
much simpler than what other programming stacks have come up with.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:45 AM, John McKay <jmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I believe this discussion is now too narrow.
These days, it is necessary to know a number of languages - every site is
multi-platform, at least having a MS and an ISeries. We need to have
development skills in RPG (all its flavours), VBA, VB, XL, AJAX as
standard.
To grasp the bigger picture, we also need to be familiar with OO and UML,
and preferably have knowledge specific to a particular industry.
Softwarre is much bigger now, and RPG / COBOL / ISeries are relatively
smaller parts of this expanding universe.
Regards,
John McKay mba
www.rpglanguage.com
www.mckaysoftware.ie
midrange.com
