Re: Is RPG dying

My dog's name is Deeter! Of course we did not spell it correctly, but
that is his name. He is a big Golden.

I just could not find a job around year 2000, although I had experience
and went on many interviews. Would ILE be a good choice? Should I forget
about the AS400 altogether? I am assuming that you were already a
programmer or operator in 2000.


Thank you,
Nancy
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:09:28 +0100 "D*B" <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:

<quote>
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
</quote>

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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