Re: An odd thing

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:19 PM 12/30/97 PDT, you wrote:
>** Reply to note from PaulMmn <PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com> Tue, 30 Dec 1997
00:34:51 -0500
>
>
>> The point is that neither language is 'better,' just more useful at the
moment.
>>   
>> I -did- find that, after writing in RPG for quite a while, the logic in my
>> COBOL programs seemed to resemble the RPG Cycle.   (:
>
>I don't think the decision between them has anything to do with the
language's
>capabilities. 
>
>If you have an AS/400 shop, it might pay to have an RPG bias. Most midrange
>programmers with AS/400 experience are going to have RPG skill. Most
available
>packages will be in RPG, so you will need RPG skill to maintain/enhance
them. 
>
>Based on that, all else being equal, the choice should be RPG. 
>
>Before I'd recommend COBOL on an AS/400, there would have to be some
compelling
>reason. An application that suited business needs not met elsewhere, for
>instance. 

A few statitics.  The last time I checked (probably about a year ago),
AS/400 shops with active programmers showed 92% had RPG as the primary
language, 7% as COBOL and 1% as everything else.

The only AS/400 that I ever sold that was considered to be a failure was a
COBOL port from a mainframe.

Al



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