As a 23 year veteran of the RPG world, I have this to say about what RPG
means to me.
It is the tight integration of the database with the code so that I can
CHAIN and READE with blinding speed.
It is the continuing evolution and betterment provided by IBM that keeps
the language relevant and useful.
It is the glorious simplicity of the code. (I have coded in other, much
more obtuse languages.)
It is the fact that it lives on a machine that you could probably push off
of a cliff, plug the resulting heap of parts back to together and boot it
up again - without losing a bit of data.
It is the beautiful understanding with which the language was crafted and
continues to evolve that make it so suited to so many business
applications in virtually any industry.
It is the technology that has allowed me to provide for my family for
nearly two and a half decades.
Long live RPG!
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\)"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 10/10/2013 01:50 PM
Subject: Re: The essence of RPG ( was Free format H, F, D and P
specs)
Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Changed subject.
On 2013-10-10, at 11:23 AM, BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Sorry for the rant, But why can't RPG just be
RPG?
It is and it isn't. Everyone has their own definition of just what the
essence of RPG is Bob.
What is it to you?
To me it is the power of moving mountains with an EXFTM or WRITE.
It is having math functions oriented towards business.
It is having backward compatibility so that I can take an old program and
convert it and be pretty damn sure that it will work.
It is NOT how I code D-specs, or F-specs. I'll live with any reasonable
syntax for that - and unlike some others will live with decisions made in
the past even if I don't particularly like them.
Anyone else want to contribute what RPG means to them in a few short pithy
sentences?
Jon Paris
www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
midrange.com
