Re: RPG - I'm not dead yet!

[john e <whattssonn@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the record, i'm not ANTI RPG.

I'm annoyed when people keep saying it's "the best business language in the
world".
Or something like that.
I want to know why.

This is not trolling.

I try to make real arguments.

But to what effect, i don't know.
It's now far too late, RPG is - still - the language of the platform, and
this will not change of course.

We as a developer community could've urged IBM (but 80's beginning 90's) to
introduce a decent language.
Instead, we were discussing free or not to free, while in the 90's the whole
client/server revolution passed by.

I don't have a problem with RPG, i mean it's a tool, another progra, nothing
more.

But the inertia of the AS/400 developers community.
Thats what i "hate".

But for the record: i do NOT hate.
I nag





On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:08 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> John -
>
> If you hate RPG so much, why are you participating in the RPG-400 mailing
> list?
>
> I have one word to describe you:
> TROLL
>
> - sjl
>
>
> john e wrote:
>  Henrik,
>
>  You now (and all others) also know my year of birth (1968), and my first
>  christian name (jacobus).
>
>  I'm not planning to reveal much more.
>  Maybe i'm afraid of my co workers, who would like to bash me in the face
> for
>  my "anti-RPG" speak (i would like to call it objective).
>  You never know, in this world...
>
>
>
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