Re: RPG - I'm not dead yet!

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Sorry ;-)



On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Bob P. Roche <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think you mean C or C+ not C# on the IBM I.
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>
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> From:
> Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:
> "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:
> 07/07/2011 11:20 AM
> Subject:
> Re: RPG - I'm not dead yet!
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> First, I don’t agree with MS has all the sexy stuff anymore simply because
> the sexy code once again is moving towards the clients such as Apple and
> Android app’s, Flash and browser based OO javascript app’s such as Ext JS
> and Touch. All these new apps have their own IDE’s and is not the least
> aware of what kind of server they use.
>
>
>
> This removes most of the sexy stuff from the server and what remain on the
> server is only (web)services and BL-services and database – and of course
> some technical stuff such as generating data in PDF, XLS or other media.
> Maybe .NET is the right tool for some, but with the above new architecture
> and IDE's and today .NET/Silverlight is just a choise amoung many.
>
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>
> Unless someone has a religious relationship to a specific programming
> language, all can probably agree that all languages have their
> advantages
> and disadvantages. Who would for example use RPG to create a binary PDF
> object or create a compiler? And who would use C# to handle a DSPF?
>
>
>
> The discussion about RPG ctr. C# ctr. Java can continue indefinitely but
> everyone forgets one thing, IBM I is programmed in ILE in a combination of
> all three (and more) languages in a global environment and RPG is
> actually
> a language that largely uses underlying C# routines both by default (eg.
> bifs%) but also as included direct calls to system routines (QC2LE)
> written
> in C# and/or Java classes such as Apache POI.
>
>
>
> So it really is more fair to say that an IBM I are programmed in ILE than
> in
> a specific programming language (where HLL RPGLE is just an option among
> many) and it is unfair to say that one isolated programming language can
> beat the concept in ILE.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Henrik Rützou
>
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