Re: EGL FUD

On Dec 16, 2007 3:50 PM, Aaron Bartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve, I think if your exposure to RPG was better than it is, then you
wouldn't be making those comments.

I dont think so. I have a lot of RPG experience. Perhaps you are not
familiar with sql procedure language? Where you can write sql procedures
that can be debugged with the ILE debugger, can call other procedures with
parameters, declare variables, has language looping constructs, fetch first
row only into procedure variables, and of course use all the sql statements
and functions. If you want to implement business logic of any complexity
which returns result sets to client apps like crystal reports or an
asp.netweb page, sql procedures are a superior solution to RPG.

I must agree that RPG, compared with
languages like Java and C#, could be considered dead. But when you are
talking about RPG on the i5, a shop with a solid team of programmers can
make RPG sing sweetly to meet a variety of needs. The hard part is
getting
that solid team of programmers, which is maybe where you are drawing your
conclusions from?

you can make RPG do great things, also sql procedures, java, c#, ... The
question the RPG shop has to answer to their management is why put so much
effort into RPG? The only valid answer I see is legacy applications. If you
are writing a new app on the system i5 the combination of sql procedures and
.NET is far superior to some RPG web hodgepodge.

-Steve