From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 03:54:01 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 C8A7B37B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 03:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk (hannibal.servitor.co.uk [195.188.15.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA8643F85 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 03:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@hannibal.servitor.co.uk) Received: from paul by hannibal.servitor.co.uk with local (Exim 4.14) id 19Gcqf-000IwD-Qi; Fri, 16 May 2003 11:54:01 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:54:01 +0100 From: Paul Robinson To: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-ID: <20030516105401.GW50427@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <200305151519.h4FFJIj00369@cruzio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305151519.h4FFJIj00369@cruzio.com> Sender: Paul Robinson cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: wmoran@potentialtech.com 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: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:54:02 -0000 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