Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG Syntax

I agree Charles...most developers only know RPG and CL. They may have been
exposed to other languages, but those are the only two they could really
code in. And of course PCs are basically emulation devices. There's a wide
gap between RPG programmers and software developers that happen to use RPG.
It's a function of background, age, environment...a lot of issues. And it's
not going away. The i market will continue to decline, but the number of RPG
programmers will decline quicker. I'll be here doing this stuff for the next
10 years, but I think we'll see a fair amount of change in that time.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I'm sure there's a few iSeries + Linux only shops out there, but I'd
guess that 90% of iSeries sites have Windows...

CL doesn't count as a separate language, as I don't think anybody
knows RPG without knowing CL.

REXX might count, but perhaps only as a 1/2 credit

SQL counts, but only when you can use it for more than a prompted
SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE statement in STRSQL.

I don't know about you, but I've worked with plenty of developers who
only know RPG (and CL).

Charles

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Charles,

I was commenting on the "every site is multi-platform, at least having
a MS and an iSeries" comment. Of *course* every developer on the IBMi
knows more than one language - we have CL and SQL and REXX, and and
and... And of *course* you can't run RPG in the browser so you need
to know something of the client side language.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/

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