Re: Should the "RPG" language be renamed and to what?

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rory,

for many years there has been discussions on how to make the AS/400 box more
sexy,
because sex sell's!

Now, I can prove it, because here is a video that has been seen by
26.000.000+ people
and what they (the customers) is actually is looking at - is a box and not
whats inside it
and how it is "programmed":

Sorry if I offend any, it is a public video with american "BIPS" and just
Justin Timberlake
trying to deliever specific customer satisfaction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg






On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I pray this is a late April Fool's thread...
>
> Surely if we've all learned one thing, it's that RENAMING IS A BAD IDEA. At
> least when it comes to IBM.
>
> None of us learned RPG because we thought it had a cool name, and I doubt
> that if we rename it to anything else, that new CS students or whoever will
> say "Hey, that sounds like a cool language - I should learn it instead
> of/as
> well as Java/Python/C". Does anyone else believe that?
>
> I learned RPG because I got a job as a programmer (with no computer
> experience whatsoever!) and it was the language that they taught me, along
> with CL. Then I went to another job and I also had to learn PL/I and then
> COBOL and then C. The main point is that I learned these languages because
> I
> *had* to, in order to do my job. I didn't (and still don't) care what those
> languages are *called*.
>
> I don't know whether RPG is being 'taught' anywhere in colleges in the US,
> but I still see plenty of up-and-coming programmers in other parts of the
> world (notably India), who are learning it because they believe, rightly or
> wrongly, that there are RPG jobs available (they might also be learning
> Python, but I doubt it, because there's a lot more competition for Pythin
> jobs, and not such an established market). I've interviewed a number of
> Indian programmers, and their skills vary wildly, but the best of them are
> better than the vast majority of programmers anywhere else in the world,
> including the US. When I ask them why they learned RPG, they say "To get a
> job". Period.
>
> Frankly, I think IBM should have stuck with "AS/400" and "RPG" and (maybe)
> given RPGLE a new name, such as RPG/Free. BUt honestly, that's it. I don't
> like change. I'm one of the younger RPG programmers too..
>
> Just my $0.02,
>
> Rory
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