From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 08:52:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED9237B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cruzio.com (mail.cruzio.com [63.249.95.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2978843F75 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem@cruzio.com) Received: from cruzio.com (dsl3-63-249-85-132.cruzio.com [63.249.85.132]) by mail.cruzio.com with ESMTP id h4FFvwGZ013380; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brucem@localhost) by cruzio.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id h4FFJIj00369; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:19:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-Id: <200305151519.h4FFJIj00369@cruzio.com> To: wmoran@potentialtech.com cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: AS/400 and RPG X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:52:14 -0000 About RPG, there do not seem to be a lot of current programming books, but I have noticed and thumbed-through some recent RPG titles at some of the silicon valley tech-bookstores (Digital Guru, I guess, and MicroCenter; Computer Literacy is no longer with us, alas). Some group at IBM seems to be keeping RPG up to date, it appears perhaps it is still considered a primary language on the AS/400, perhaps due to the large body of legacy apps. I guess they're calling it RPG/400? >From my casual perusal, it appears to have taken on ever more of a "database query language" flavor with respect to the integrated AS/400 database; it is sometimes easy when dealing with even trivial programs that are front-ending a database to find porting more difficult then expected due to functionality that has been offloaded to the database. I'm not sure what the "forms support" situation is, but it might also be something where there's a lot of functionality "under the hood" that might have to be re-implemented. Warning - it's been a quarter century since I used RPG! There is some good to be found in most any system or language, I do believe I once maintained an RPG "app" on a System/3 with only 8K of memory. - bruce