Re: Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG

No, I was just talking about ILE. My assumption would be if I were to create
a modern package I would put one team on GUI in front end(Java, .net,
python, etc) and RPG in the backend but trying to find a programmer who
would write modern RPG would be almost impossible. What possible value would
there be in recreating the mess you have currently? Virtually unmaintainable
code.



On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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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