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

RPG has been a fantastic language for creating OLTP systems with a mix of
BL/DB I/O and simple I/O devices such as 5250 and SCS output
streams.However simple I/O devices such as 5250 and SCS output streams is
technologies of the past and that removes much of the justification of RPG
simply because 90% of coding today is about connecting a varity of devices
and reformatting the RDBMS column/row model into hieracical data objects
where OO capabilities are much more suited for manipulation of such objects.

However there is still a lot of RPG programmers out there who is reluctant
to move out of their RPG comfort zone but time will remove them either by
their age or the decline in legazy systems.New programmers arriving on the
IBM i platform will have other comfort zones and why learn RPG if they just
can install java, node.js, phython or other modern languages on the system?

Yes, it may create a mess of different program languages around a system,
but who do you think will win the battle eventually? The past or the future?


On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Raul A Jager W <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is a lot if "inertia", few professionals are willing to learn
something new. This includes the ones that use php, net, etc, and, sadly
lots of RPG programers that steel write programs for 5250.

The new RPG applications written for 5250 contribute a lot to the
perception of RPG as an old language. And for lazy and/or incompetent
people, it is a lot easier to say: "it is obsolete" rather than say the
truth: "I am not capable of learning something new".


On 07/03/2017 01:23 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 7/3/2017 1:01 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:

" If RPG were easier / more flexible to use than say .NET or PHP for web
apps, why don't web teams switch?"

Probably the same reason I use RPG for web apps. I know it and haven't
found a compelling reason to change (and I have looked).

Which might be one definition of 'not easier'.

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