This one is a good encapsulation of the rest of them, I think...
"..It is the continuing evolution and betterment provided by IBM that keeps the language relevant and useful..."
...without deprecating very much, either...
You can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time!
--Alan
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Wright
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:02 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Cc: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The essence of RPG ( was Free format H, F, D and P specs)
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
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