Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages?
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 22:35:29 -0500
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You raise an interesting question. I do not know the answer to this:

Does adding in that our chosen platform has the ILE environment give us flexibility and choices that other platforms can not provide?

On 7/2/2017 8:29 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:

:D

RPG is a general purpose language, so there will be things that other languages do easier/better. A new language may do task x better, but how well does it do tasks w, y and z? Is the superiority for task x so great as to outweigh the inferior performance for tasks w, y and z? How about good enough to warrant adding a new language in your environment (assuming the new language is only used for x)?

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Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages? , Buck Calabro
Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages? , John Yeung

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