Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are many foundational things that RPG excels at like DB
connectivity, modular programming, integrated into operating system
jobs and corresponding logs, etc.  The syntax face lift is more for
bringing in new talent and making it easier to digest.  Making it free
form will actually cause programs to be more verbose because there is
a lot of efficiency in things like D-spec variable declarations.

So I guess you could say that making it free form is purely a
marketing effort - but in my opine it is a necessary one.  If a 100%
free form would happen, and if companies were doing RPG+CGI
programming for their next gen apps, then I think the PHP type
programmer would have a fairly easy time coming up to speed with
RPG+CGI programming.  That's just my take.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:04 AM, john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If RPG is taken to 100% free form then I would totally agree with> taking all the best syntax from other languages and putting them into> RPG
> Why?? If it's already such a good "business language" why throw in other syntax??