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

I call "web skills" HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML web services, etc. I
can't see what can you do in PHP whitout them. And with java, unless you
have web skills, the only thing you can do is "one user applications" or
the obsolete "client-server".

This is the reason why I think it is very important for AS/400
profesionals to learn them. If you drive your web using RPG, it is very
easy to change to other languages, but if you need to go from DDS green
sceen to PHP, it will be a lot harder.

So, my advise is to change first your screen, from green to web, and
when you are confortable with that, you can change RPG. Do the changes
one by one, but don'stay in the green screen.
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Mike Wills wrote:

Reread that again. added parentheses for clarity.

(RPG and web skills) are transportable to nothing. (PHP or Java
skills) are transportable to anything.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.info

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On Aug 11, 2010, at 2:48 PM, "Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We need to learn web skills, RPG we already know. And I think you are
completly wrong on "web skills are transportable to nothing".

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Michael Ryan wrote:

And that's a fine thing, but it's limiting to one platform. Nothing wrong
with that, but RPG and web skills are transportable to nothing. PHP or Java
skills are transportable to anything.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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