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From: Aaron Bartell
I must agree that RPG, compared with
languages like Java and C#, could be considered dead.
Why would you say that, Aaron? Look at the advancements in RPG vs. Java
over the past ten years. The syntax advancements in the language to support
ILE and free-format absolutely dwarf the changes made to the basic Java
language. Hell, it took Java this long just to get generics!
Sure, the Java PLATFORM (the whole J2EE thing) might have had more work, but
that's because it needed it! And from what I can tell, isn't C# just
another dotted and bracketed language? Sure, the whole .NET CLR thing is a
pretty major advancement for Microsoft, but it barely brings Windows into
competition with ILE. And C# itself isn't exactly a revolutionary language.
Yeah, more people are on the Windows bandwagon, but there are a few more
Windows machines out there! But I challenge you to find any language that
has advanced as much as the IBM compiler team has advanced the RPG language.
Anyway, this starts to wander off into language wars, so I don't want to
cause trouble, and I'm still waiting to go sledding, so I think I better get
off the list.
Joe
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