RE: Is RPG dying

If I had nothing today and was just starting a business (a non-software development business) I would not choose any particular hardware or OS or language as I would most likely just go 100% cloud and let someone else worry about all that. If I was starting a business that was going to provide cloud services I would definitely go with the i platform because it will scale so nicely but would probably choose java or EGL as the language. My customers won't care as they only care about the end result and I want my developers to be as productive as possible.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john e
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 7:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Is RPG dying

Joe said:

People get Perl jobs too. :) But to use the trite observation, if
you were building an application today would you use PHP as your first
choice? I wouldn't.

But the question was: would you choose the AS/400 (IBM i, pff) and RPG (or just AS/400) as your (server) development platform, if you had a choice, i.e. all things considered equal and no AS/400 already running mega package.



On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On 3/9/2012 1:53 AM, John Yeung wrote:

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Joe
Pluta<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I'll be happy to make a prediction. PHP is on a steady decline,
has been for the last several years.

You cite TIOBE, which shows PHP's trajectory as basically flat from
sometime in 2004 through 2010, with a more noticeable decline only
in the last couple of years. (Contrast with Java, which has been
declining for at least a decade, even after adjusting for the
"Google revision" in 2004.)

Yes, the decline since, say, 2010 has been dramatic. Almost as bad as
Visual Basic.

You want to be current, learn C# or Objective-C.

I think what these languages' TIOBE ratings show is that the .NET
and iPhone platforms are enjoying a lot of success right now.

I agree. I wrote about that nearly a year ago:


http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/practical-rpg-the-future-
of-rpg.html

You want to be last year's news, learn PHP or better yet Python.
Scripting languages are sooooo 2006. :)

True. Though it sounds like Hans got his PHP job more recently than
that. At least we don't have to worry about RPG ever having been or
ever becoming a fad. :)

People get Perl jobs too. :) But to use the trite observation, if
you were building an application today would you use PHP as your first
choice? I wouldn't.

Joe
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