Re: Are we not developers?

Stack overflow gets very little IBM i/RPG/COBOL compared to other
languages. Most posts about them are people trying to access databases
from other platforms.

Its a great place to get info for most things, but not RPG. Well, let me
rephrase that.. if you ask a question there are many in the knows that will
provide excellent help. I just don't think there's enough content to
search for answers.


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On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:34 AM Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just read this summary of the 2020 Slack Overflow annual survey:


https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stack-overflow-developer-survey-2020-programming-language-framework-salary-data/

There are no references to RPG or Cobol.

There are a couple of references to DB2: it ranked second to last in least
used database. And if you look at the full survey, DB2 ranks #1 as the
most dreaded database.

I know we are a small community, but I'm surprised that neither RPG nor
Cobol were referenced at all. Could be that hardly any of us hang out on
Slack Overflow?

So does the rest of the world not consider us "real" developers because we
aren't using what they consider "real" languages?

I remember taking a class on C++ back in the mid-90s with a co-worker of
mine. The first day the instructor let us know that C++ was a "real"
language, and nothing like those "sissy" languages like Basic or RPG. My
co-worker immediately raised his hand and let him know that we were both
RPG programmers. The instructor told us that we would have a hard time in
his class then. We both passed with perfect scores; proved him wrong.

Just curious - anyone else ever experienced this type of bias?

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk




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