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  3. March 2012

Re: Is RPG dying

Re-read what I wrote. I said you can write bad code in any language. I said that dynamically typed languages make it easier to write bad code. And that's because IMO dynamic typing allows people to write code with less (or no!) up-front design and then "refactor" it, because you don't have to worry about types.

Joe

... the result is you end up with unmaintainable systems.
Only if you hire unskilled or sloppy programmers. You can write bad code in any language. You can write unmaintainable code in any language. Even Java. Ever saw the code behind Java MoveX? It looks like a bunch of RPG programmers wrote it. Not a hit against you Joe, but what I mean is that they converted it from RPG 3, and kept the style intact as a matter of choice. Pretty scary actually.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
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