Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:54:01 +0100 From: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> To: "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@cruzio.com> Cc: wmoran@potentialtech.com Subject: Re: OT: AS/400 and RPG Message-ID: <20030516105401.GW50427@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200305151519.h4FFJIj00369@cruzio.com> References: <200305151519.h4FFJIj00369@cruzio.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:19:18AM -0700, Bruce R. Montague wrote: > 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? Yeah, the VisualAge and RPG/400 stuff that's knocking around is pretty good, but like I said before, Java seems to be language de jour over at AS/400^W"iSeries" headquarters and we were recently offered an iSeries/WebSphere combo which we declined. > 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. Yeah, RPG/400 these days will do a lot of hand-holding. The question here is whether it's appropriate for him to support the app that is 90% finished, or take on the re-development in something more "straight forward". > 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. Cool. I got into it because my dad was doing Synon and RPG/400 over in the US when I was a teenager (early-1990s) and I just kind of fell in love with the machine. For a long time I thought when I graduated I would never have to deal with anything else for a portion of my career other than AS/400. It wasn't to be, but that's because somebody showed me Unix in the meantime which is dirtier and nastier, but also even more arcane and wizard-like. :-) -- Paul Robinson
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030516105401.GW50427>