Scott,
As always it's interesting to hear your opinions.
Just a curiosity question since you've programmed in 20+ languages.
Have you ever used VB.Net ?
VB.Net is like RPG on steroids and just as English-like to code. Plus it has the power of the .Net Framework APIs behind it.
Both RPG and VB.Net are great business languages.
Might be worth making it 21+ :-)
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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What's most important on the server-side now is a language that makes it easy to code BUSINESS LOGIC. This is where RPG can really shine, because it's great for business logic.
It may be true that languages like PHP make it easier to build JSON -- but, it's not really all _that_ big of a deal, there are JSON libraries for RPG, or you can code them with regular/normal string manipulation (which really isn't that hard.) Same is true of XML.
The big focus of your work when you sit down to build an application is really on the writing the business logic itself. I've coded in 20+ programming languages, and I have always found RPG to be the best thing out there for business logic... it's just an elegant environment for business logic!
The other time-consuming part is the UI design... and this is an important piece, but since that logic is all on the front-end these days, it really doesn't matter what the back-end language is, since that's not where you code it!
-SK
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