Re: Is RPG dying -- RPG400-L

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There is a cultural thing here too. AS400 people regard themselves as "programmers"; in the MS / Unix worlds, people regard themsleves as "software developers".

Regards,
John McKay mba

On 22/02/2012 16:21, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Anyway, what would have been the best thing for a RPG and
CL AS400 programmer to do back in 2000?

Back in 2000, there was a lot of new investment in browser user interfaces.

Would retraining have been a good idea?

Retraining is probably not the right word. You probably would have been well served by learning HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and the browser Document Object Model; Adding that to what you already knew. You could have used RPG to develop new browser user interfaces. Whether that would have been better than "retraining", in Java, PHP, or .Net would probably vary from one person to the next. I just want to point out that you could and still can use RPG to respond to requests from browsers.

How about now?

Now, a lot of new investment is going into tablets and mobile phone interfaces. Again, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the browser DOM would serve you well. And again, so could RPG.

-Nathan

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