Re: RPG - I'm not dead yet!

[Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like the article Joe, we all love it when someone talks up RPG. But
I don't think the statistics prove anything, you can read them how you
want. You could read that a minority of programmers are still using
RPG and always have. If you had done your article in 2010, how would
you have interpreted the sharp downward slope?! On the other hand, if
we sort the table on the delta column, RPG comes in second!

When I arrived at our shop in 2000 we had no internet site and
programmed uniquely in RPG with our PCs running windows 3.11. We were
all programmers, even the guy who took care of the system. Today, half
of us are still doing the same. The other half are new recrutes, web
programmers, administrators. We are gradually being squeezed out.
Anyway thanks for trying, I am always fascinated by your apparent love
for RPG even when I know that you are skilled in OOP languages. I'd
have liked your article to have given me some ammunition for when I
eat with one of the Java guys on Friday who is always telling me how
outdated and useless RPG is. As someone who learnt to program with
RPG, maybe I have difficulty in really appreciating its advantages
over other languages.

2011/7/6 Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> IBM i developers and RPG programmers in particular may enjoy an article
> of mine that MC Press just published.  It's a comparison of the trends
> of various programming languages based on the TIOBE index.  Understand
> that TIOBE primarily measures the popularity of a language in various
> search engines and so doesn't necessarily correlate to use in the real
> world.  But it does provide a glimpse into what programmers consider to
> be hot, and the results are pretty interesting.
>
> http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/practical-rpg-the-future-of-rpg.html
>
> Joe
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