Re: Is RPG dying

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well James, talk about a language hardly anyone knows about - PL/I - 
I'll put in my bid for REXX!

On 2/16/2012 11:28 AM, James Lampert wrote:
> Monnier, Gary wrote:
> > Are you sure it isn't just a rumor being spread by those that are
> > invested heavily in other languages?
> In the first place, no one programming language is a panacea, and none
> should be treated as such.
>
> Yet far too many programmers only bother to learn one, and let's face
> it, when the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem ends up
> looking like a nail.
>
> If RPG is dying, then /free (which makes RPG look like something
> entirely different, and consumed resources that *could* have been used
> to make a full implementation of PL/I available on the 400), and the
> fact that The Cycle is so rarely used these days, and that so much new
> software uses SQL instead of native RLA, and that native RLA hasn't been
> updated to support certain data types, are all nails in its coffin.
>
> --
> JHHL