Re: Is RPG dying

[john e <whattssonn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe said:

> People get Perl jobs too.  :)  But to use the trite observation, if you
> were building an application today would you use PHP as your first
> choice?  I wouldn't.

But the question was: would you choose the AS/400 (IBM i, pff) and RPG (or
just AS/400) as your (server) development platform, if you had a choice,
i.e. all things considered equal and no AS/400 already running mega package.



On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 3/9/2012 1:53 AM, John Yeung wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Joe Pluta<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote:
> > > I'll be happy to make a prediction.  PHP is on a steady
> > > decline, has been for the last several years.
> > You cite TIOBE, which shows PHP's trajectory as basically flat from
> > sometime in 2004 through 2010, with a more noticeable decline only in
> > the last couple of years.  (Contrast with Java, which has been
> > declining for at least a decade, even after adjusting for the "Google
> > revision" in 2004.)
>
> Yes, the decline since, say, 2010 has been dramatic.  Almost as bad as
> Visual Basic.
>
> > >   You want to be current, learn C# or Objective-C.
> > I think what these languages' TIOBE ratings show is that the .NET and
> > iPhone platforms are enjoying a lot of success right now.
>
> I agree.  I wrote about that nearly a year ago:
>
>
> http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/practical-rpg-the-future-of-rpg.html
>
>
> > >   You want to be last year's news, learn PHP or better yet
> > > Python.  Scripting languages are sooooo 2006.  :)
> > True.  Though it sounds like Hans got his PHP job more recently than
> > that.  At least we don't have to worry about RPG ever having been or
> > ever becoming a fad.  :)
>
>
> People get Perl jobs too.  :)  But to use the trite observation, if you
> were building an application today would you use PHP as your first
> choice?  I wouldn't.
>
> Joe
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