Re: Is RPG dying

Also, just to say, I believe IBM will continue to enhance RPG. The big
question is whether there will be AS/400's to run it on. Machines are
dropping like fly's.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Marc Couture <couturem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

If you are in your 20's better start looking around !!

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:00, "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.

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


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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On Behalf Of Chamara Withanachchi
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:43 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System, i
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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