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On 7/3/2017 11:19 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Nice. Even better (ie more business-related) than my contrived example.
3) RPG is not the strongest language on any platform (including IBM i)Similar example of that here:
to write a web app. [1]
[1] Write a web app in RPG that uses your state's GIS web service and
the Google Maps API to map the hilltops in your county higher than a
user-selectable elevation. Good luck, pioneer! How easy is it to use a
language which has no examples?
https://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=429
Yes, it uses jQuery, but that should be standard on any web app these days.Yep.
RPG with a nice toolkit like CGIDEV2 or eRPG SDK is a great webDoes this make RPG the strongest web dev language?
application tool, especially if your data is on an IBM i.
Specifically:
Fewer examples.
Spartan documentation.
Few tutorials.
Don't get me wrong: I love RPG and always will. I'm not dismissing RPG
as unsuitable for web work. But from my own personal experience, I have
never, not once, seen a team of people who were life long web developers
choose RPG as their go-to language, and all of my data has always been
on IBM i.
Is there an element of 'use what ya know?' Absolutely. The question
then is this: If RPG were easier / more flexible to use than say .NET
or PHP for web apps, why don't web teams switch?
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