Re: Is RPG dying

[Marc Couture <couturem@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How in the world there isn't bugs in java ?  Lolll

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On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:10, "D*B" <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ... RPG is as dead or as alive as any other programming language and so it can't die. its no human beeing, nor animal, nor plant and so its dead from its very beginning.
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> Another questions is: who is using RPG today and maybe tomorrow and the answer is:  its a shrinking market and there are very few projects to write new software using RPG. I would not recommend any newcomer to trust in the RPG market, but I don't see any reason for well educated RPG programmers to leave the RPG sector in panic, there are a lot of companies sitting on RPG written applications, needing maintenance of the code to adopt changing business rules and eliminateing bugs (there might be lots of bugs to fix!).
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> In any case it might be a good idea, in particular for freelancers to have a look to the mainstream, from time to time and to learn from the mainstream to survive in the RPG niche. 
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> Dieter,
>
> who is fun driven and made the transition from RPG to Java, just for fun!
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