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  3. February 2012

Re: Is RPG dying

James,

The implementation of PL/I on the '400 is pretty full. I use it almost
every day and aside from some little bits and pieces that only exist in
mainframes, I don't think it's missing anything big.

Just sayin', from one PL/I-lover to another... :)

Rory

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:28 AM, James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

If RPG is dying, then /free (which makes RPG look like something
entirely different, and consumed resources that *could* have been used
to make a full implementation of PL/I available on the 400), and the
fact that The Cycle is so rarely used these days, and that so much new
software uses SQL instead of native RLA, and that native RLA hasn't been
updated to support certain data types, are all nails in its coffin.

--
JHHL


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