Re: Is RPG dying

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, RPG is dying. No one is teaching it anymore and all the
young people coming out of school are learning Java and C#, object
oriented programming languages. ILE RPG is a good language but it is
still a structured programming language and what you can do is
limited. I love writing ILE RPG but the future and really the present
are object oriented languages.

Also, RPG is dying simply because most of the people working on it are
still writing monolith RPG. It has been 20 years and ILE RPG has still
almost no penetration.  5%, !%?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Chamara Withanachchi
<chamaraw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is some talks going on in Sri Lanka among some developers they say
> RPG is dying and IBM is no longer invsting on it.
>
> But I know that is not the case, sad thing is Sri Lankan IBM also saying
> rpg is dying and their support is 0 on RPG. Infact they do nothing for us
> who is in this arena (no events no seminars nothing)
>
> May b this is being discussed in this list but I like to get some more
> details on the subject especially I like to hear some thing on this from
> Barbara Morris, Scott, Aaron Bartell, John and Susan or any one who knows
> about this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chamara withanachchi
> IBM certified RPG specialist
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