Re: Open Source RPG ?

[Keith Carpenter <carpcon@xxxxxxx>]

An open source RPG could useful for porting RPG applications to other
platforms (*nix), but IBM would have nothing to gain anything by this.


David Gibbs wrote:
> Neil Palmer wrote:
>> 1) Would you be in favor of IBM Open Sourcing RPG ?
>>     (give reasons why or why not if you want)
> 
> To gain what?
> 
> It's not like RPG is a popular language in the open source community ...
> and what would the advantage be?  Rapid adaptation to modern
> technologies?  One of the strengths of RPG (indeed the iSeries, or
> whatever it's called today, itself) is stability.  To make the RPG
> compiler open source invites customizations ... what happens when a
> vendor takes the RPG compiler and customizes it to their own end ...
> nobody else would be able to use programs based on that customization
> without having the modified compiler source.  This makes things less
> stable.  Plus, modifications to the compiler would probably not go
> through the same rigorous QA that IBM does.
> 
> JMHO, of course.
> 
> david
> 
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