RE: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?

Bryce,

I think you may have missed the point of Nathan's comment. If you already have a i in-house and you need to present your data or business logic to the web why not use your RPG skills to do it? There isn't any additional cost because you already have the hosting platform. We do this today with RPG web services hosted on our iSeries and there isn't any CGI involved. Simply reusing service programs we also use in our RPG applications.

If one was to build a web application from the ground up with nothing, then you have a point.

Rick

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryce Martin
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Future of RPG: What language would you learn?

"I'd like to see more programmers using RPG for Web application development."

<rant>That's all well and good except its far more expensive to try and do some sort of SaaS solution written in RPG+CGI hosted on i than it is to have it done in LAMP on intel hardware. So while its a nice idea in theory, the costs of running the application on i would have to come way down before its feasible. I would love to develop an app and put it on the i but its too cost prohibitive. I can develop an app right on my desktop, find a cheap host and scale my solution as customers come on. Its rapid development with staged deployment that keep capitol costs to a minimum. The current state of affairs in web programming are the way they are for a reason.</rant>


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I

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