Re: Is RPG dying

[Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

James,

The implementation of PL/I on the '400 is pretty full. I use it almost
every day and aside from some little bits and pieces that only exist in
mainframes, I don't think it's missing anything big.

Just sayin', from one PL/I-lover to another... :)

Rory

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:28 AM, James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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