RE: interesting /. story on RPG -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: interesting /. story on RPG
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:10:11 -0700 (MST)
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Scott Klement wrote:

> But... if you're going to re-do the application to use gtk, Qt, Xlib, etc,
> why use RPG?  Write it in C!  Write it in Perl!  Write it in Python!
> Why RPG?  Why not make use of the millions of existing Unix developers?

The only reason would be to take advantage of RPG's record processing and
cycle.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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