Re: Is RPG dying

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Back in 2000 a reasonable choice was available from IBM.  It was called 
Visual Age RPG and was a Windows based GUI, written by the programmer in 
ordinary RPG with various added opcodes that allowed a regular 
programmer like me to write true OS/2 and Windows programs that ran on 
OS/2 and Windows operating systems.

I still have the scars.  VARPG worked a charm, but almost no one would 
go that route.

Here's a sample:

      * .................................
      *  (EXIT pushbutton was pressed)
     C     PSB0000D      BEGACT    PRESS     FRA0000B
     C                   MOVE      *ON       *INLR
     C                   ENDACT
      * .............................................
      *  (Initialization of ENTRY box)
     C    ENT0000E      BEGACT    CREATE     FRA0000B
      * fill the display window fields:
     C     'ENT0000E'    SETATR    TODAY      'text'
     C                   MOVE      *DATE      fieldf      10
     C     'ENT0000F'    SETATR    fieldf     'text'
      * .................................................
     C                   ENDACT


On 2/21/2012 9:25 PM, newnancy@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Only two programmers? That was a small shop.
>
> Anyway, what would have been the best thing for a RPG and CL AS400
> programmer to do back in 2000? Would retraining have been a good idea?
> How about now?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Nancy
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