Re: Future of RPG

At this point, I have a love-hate attitude towards Google. It seems like
they are/will be doing interesting things with Go, GWT, Android & Chrome
OS, WebM, etc. I'm just not crazy about the company. It seems like they
could be more of an "evil empire" than anyone who has gone before them. I
think it's their lead in search technology and the cloud that potentially
makes them more dangerous. Of course, other companies like MS and Apple
are vying for the market share in similar areas (search, ads, the cloud,
etc.).

Blake



date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:06:01 -0500
from: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Future of RPG

Blake said: The most important thing is to write modular code as is
stressed over and
over again by people on this list. Separate concerns by breaking your data
access logic and business rules into RPG service programs or what have
you. If architected properly, you can then re-use that logic any number of
ways, whether it be for a 5250, browser or fat-client application. I'm not
saying anything a lot of people on this list don't already know (and
better than myself), but maybe it will provide a starting point.
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In the end you summed it up right on the money. We all have had
different experiences with successes and failures of the various
technologies. For those that DO plan on testing the waters with
non-IBMi technologies, then the best insurance policy is to build for
the "just in case it doesn't work out" scenarios, and that is building
modular and building for change in the landscape.

I would put money on Google coming out with their own UI technology in
the next couple years that will put the others to shame (i.e.
Silverlight, Flex/Flash, JavaFX, etc). Google has the advantage of
watching on the side lines the current fiascos going on and the
advantage of a ginormous check book to write checks with when the time
is right. Look how short of a time it took them to become a contender
in the mobile phone OS market? Two, maybe three years?

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