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It sounds to me like you're describing the stereotypical AS/400 RPG dev. He was an accounting-type person who learned RPG on the job, and suffered from "only tool is a hammer".



-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Rodriguez [mailto:luisro58@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 4:01 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RPG hard to learn?

I don’t think that RPG is, per se, hard to learn. Nevertheless, in my limited experience, the people who learnt RPG as a first language tend to be coders, but not so good programmers or System Analysts. For most of them is sometimes hard to translate a particular business problem into the different steps necessary to solve it. Also, it seems that they struggle to translate their knowledge to other languages (e.g., SQL, C, etc.).

On the other hand, I suppose that for those learning any of the /free variants the results could be different…

Regards,
Luis


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