RE: Is RPG dying

["Porterfield, Sean" <SPorterfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Bernd Dworrak
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 04:02

> what I really do not understand is why RPG should be dying.
> In my opinion RPG is, as it was before, the best language for business logic on the system i.
> What really is missing are development tools, that combine all the abilities of RPG in a modern interface, so that junior programmers are attracted to it, too.
> Today we have RPG/OA and EGL and PDM and ...
> But besides some development environments coming from third party companies there is none coming from IBM that fulfill the demands mentioned above.

I expect Joe Pluta to jump in here :) but did you miss seeing WDSC all those years then RDi and now RDP?
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Sean Porterfield

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