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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H. H. Lampert
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:48 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol
Dave wrote:
But on the i, I suspect that the overwhelming majority choose RPG.
Why? Why is COBOL the choice for mainframes?
Why was interpreted BASIC the overwhelming majority choice for desktop systems, long after COBOL, FORTRAN, and PL/I became available for them?
Why is C such a popular choice for applications, despite its manifest unsuitability for most application-level work, and why was it the basis for Java's syntax?
Except for a few of us who go out of our way to be fluent in multiple programming languages, most programmers seem to specialize in one, or maybe two. And when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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JHHL
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