Re: RPG CGI for PHP programmers

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great idea! Another good spot is IMHO.

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> The past couple years I have been looking for ways to allow RPG shops to
> thrive (not just survive).  In conversation with Richard Milone
> (CNXCorp.com, owner/author of Valence - a RPG+ExtJS solution) he mentioned
> that they train existing web developers in other languages to learn Valence
> vs. the potentially harder approach of training an RPG programmer in the
> same tooling (I think it isn't as much about ability but instead
> willingness
> to jump into the unknown)
>
> I wonder if we should start page on the wiki.midrange.com site that
> details
> how a PHP programmer could make the transition to RPG+CGI?  There are some
> "interesting" parts of RPG that they would have to watch out for (i.e. Open
> Data Paths, Activation Groups) but I think in the end the environment could
> be taught in less than a month.  I am not saying they would understand how
> to admin an IBM i, but at one month they could be fairly fluent in creating
> RPG+CGI apps because they don't have the learning curve of
> HTML+CSS+Javascript+CGI+browercomplexity.
>
> Sounds like a book opportunity too - Kevin from Zend, are you listening?
> ;-)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
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