Re: iSeries Misconceptions

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: <jon.paris@e400.com>

> >> if so, then the company that Rob was dealing with is correct: RPG is
> just for legacy.
>
> I've come upon a number of new users recently.  Many (but not all) are
> former mainframe shops moving to the 400 and (for the most part) converting
> to use RPG because the new packages they have purchased run in RPG and they
> don't want to maintain both COBOL and RPG.

from Rob's posting:

   * the platform/language environment currently persists only because of a
large
     body of existing legacy code.
   * the role of RPG programmers is widely being reduced to that of system
     maintenance


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