Re: Is RPG dying

I should clarify a bit. "Modern languages" are slowly eating away at RPG's
market share, but I'd like to see how many of the "modern languages" have a
shelf life that RPG does. Anyone know of any PHP applications that are 20+
years old that are unmodified ( that is no bug fixes) and heck, we lost the
source for it and STILL WORKS ON A UP-TO-DATE SYSTEM?

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Going against the grain here, RPG is dying, though very, very slowly. Much
like COBOL has been dying for what 10+ years now? How is that going? There
is so much code out there with millions (maybe billions) of dollars of
investment that I highly doubt that IBM will drop any support for it any
time soon. Just look at 7.1 enhancements for RPG; there are still pleanty
enhancements in there. Heck, they just started to give away RPG Open
Access. When you stop seeing enhancements in OS releases, then it is time
to start worrying.

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Mike Wills
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Chamara Withanachchi <
chamaraw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm kind of confused don't know what's the truth

Chamara
On Feb 16, 2012 10:21 PM, "Monnier, Gary" <Gary.Monnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are you sure it isn't just a rumor being spread by those that are

invested

heavily in other languages?

Gary Monnier


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Subject: Is RPG dying

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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