Hello,
what I really do not understand is why RPG should be dying.
In my opinion RPG is, as it was before, the best language for business logic on the system i.
What really is missing are development tools, that combine all the abilities of RPG in a modern interface, so that junior programmers are attracted to it, too.
Today we have RPG/OA and EGL and PDM and ...
But besides some development environments coming from third party companies there is none coming from IBM that fulfill the demands mentioned above.
So this is no question whether RPG is good or bad or if it is dying or still strong alive.
It is more a question of how much it is supported by Big Blue.
But, as I told, that is only my point of view.
Bernd Dworrak, Dipl. Phys.
LASO Software GmbH
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An: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
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It seems, for reading all the notes on this subject, that it is wounded but still alive and around. I just wonder about COBOL...I do not really hear much about it anymore.
Only two programmers? That was a small shop.
But, 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? I was hoping that somebody would answer my questions.
Thank you,
Nancy
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Nancy,
- COBOL is playing the same role in the mainframe sector as RPG in the AS/400 sector, it's a slowly shrinking nishe, keeping alive with maintaining old software and very few projects to develop new applications.
- 2000 has gone more than 10 years and you can't reload your life, so the best for you is: your own decision in the year 2000 was the best choice for you from the perspective of the year 2000.
- What to do now? This depends on your actual job situation, your personal situation, your preferences and your interests. Learning new things can't be wrong at any time and having a look to mainstream technologies opens up your eyes for things happening outside your little world., especeally when you are living and working in a slightly shrinking niche. Most important is how problems are analyzed and solved, not the programming languages. The short history of Java in the AS/400 community is an impressive example, that trying to write RPG programms in Java did not work. Developping software is design driven and if someone doesn't understand the diffrence between the RPG cycle and event driven software, he should stay at programming RPG, because he is thinking in RPG.
Dieter
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