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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...] 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Friday who is always telling me how outdated and useless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.
I think the article mentions some quite compelling advantages.
Basically, it all boils down to: RPG is extremely well integrated
with the database that lives on the IBM midrange platform, and is
extremely well suited to the types of operations that are typically
performed on that database. On this platform, nothing else provides
RPG's ease of development as well as its efficient use of machine
resources. (And I say this as not a particularly rabid fan of RPG.)
As Joe noted in the article, RPG lives and dies with the platform.
Someone who doesn't believe in the platform will have little reason to
believe in RPG.
John
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