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Nathan, it's two separate paths. Those who are in a secure position in an i shop can
and do expand their use of the platform but if someone gets laid off today,
with their RPG only skills they can do very little on the job market.
 
Some people have to plan and prepare for the worst case scenario. If I had prepared better I would be at least 6 months ahead in terms of what I can do in the ASP.net Silverlight C#, VB.net world.

--- On Wed, 8/11/10, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 4:01 PM


From: Tom Deskevich
So I guess I did have some value to the company other
than just a "code monkey".

Sounds good.  That was one thought I hoped to plant.  As a follow-on thought, it
concerns me that RPG programmers still look to Java, PHP, and .Net, for Web
application development. They often site "popularity" as a reason.  We're doing
a lot of new development in RPG, interfacing with browsers, and it frustrates me
to hear about peers switching to other languages.  I'd like to see more
programmers using RPG for Web application development.

-Nathan



     

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