Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages? -- RPG400-L

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:57 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The functionality of jQuery is something that is hard for me
to imagine being easier in RPG. Or even close, honestly. I think a
good test would be to ask Scott Klement, if he were tasked with
implementing jQuery today, and he could choose RPG or JavaScript,
which would he choose?

Sort of apples to oranges. jQuery is client side mainly. RPG is
server side. I wouldn't know where to being trying to duplicate
jQuery using RPG. That would be ugly.

It is very much apples to oranges. But since I presented it as a
thought experiment, I think it's fair to imagine that we have some
kind of "RPG transpiler" that allows us to use it as a browser
development language (in a similar manner as CoffeeScript, or the
profusion of other languages that transpile to JavaScript these days).

As for JS being client-side, well, that's the whole reason for Node.js.

I use both, and love both. ;)

Excellent attitude. I wish more people had it.

John Y.

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