RE: RPG is Dead? Say it aint so!

["Holden Tommy" <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HTML and CSS are pretty easy to learn.  PHP is a little more complex but
if you know SQL fairly well you should be ok.  Never used EGL before so
I can't speak to that.  Personally I'd still start with the simple
stuff...HTML, CSS then move on to the other stuff.  But then again I'm
not as well versed as you folks... 


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:48 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RPG is Dead? Say it aint so!

> From: Joe Pluta
>
> Well, the HTML side I might agree with simply because the nature of
any
> generated code is such that at some point you will eventually know
enough
> to
> add your own stuff.  It won't be because the EGL generated code is
broken,
> but just that you want to add some spiffy JavaScript that you
downloaded
> from the web.

In fact, let's go a little further here.  With PHP or CGIDEV or even my
beloved JSP, you MUST be pretty good at HTML just to use the technology.
With EGL, you can start out without any knowledge of HTML, and yet be
fully
productive creating good looking web pages.  All you need to know is the
VERY high-level EGL syntax (where the single line "get customers" loads
an
array of records from the database).

Politics and pricing aside, for RPG programmers EGL is truly the easiest
way
to get started in web application programming.

Joe