You're welcome Vern and Nathan. GUI or event-driven development does not
necessarily mean OO development, especially in Windows. A lot of our
systems software is written in C and has been extremely reliable,
efficient, extensible, scalable, long-lived (20+ years with no end in
sight), etc., but it was well-designed to begin with. So I would say that
C, like RPG IV,are still very viable languages. If one can develop
efficient, maintainable, future-proof software with them, regardless of
bad examples to the contrary, that is what ultimately matters. As I've
argued earlier, RPG will be around because IBM i and Power Systems will be
around. IBM is demolishing its Power Systems/UNIX competition right now so
far as I know, and IBM i is its largest install based on said hardware. So
I personally am not concerned about RPG as dying or outmoded.
Blake
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