Re: Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG -- RPG400-L

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On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Campin wrote:
Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG.
Cannot get programmers.
Almost impossible to find programmers willing to write modern code.

[...] I'd like to understand the rationale as much as anyone,
but each of your points come across as untenable. I
understand that there are other platform and language
choice besides RPG, but can you elaborate why it would be
impossible to even think about it? Surely it can't due to a
lack of programmers willing and able to create modern code!

No, that's exactly it. He's saying it's a huge task, and there are
not a lot of RPG programmers available; and of those that are
available, only a very, very tiny percentage of them are able and
willing to write modern code. (And by "modern" here, I think he means
not just using the ILE features of RPG IV, which is already only used
by a small minority, but features that would be expected of a Windows
application, mainly the GUI. It's not really feasible to port a GUI
app to green screen.)

John

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