the WEB on a 400

[Guest.Visitor]

If you want to see a professional WEB on the 400 <a > href="http://www.milleraviation.com" > CLICK HERE </a> <pre> Bob Hamilton TEXAS BUSINESS SYSTEMS 736 Pinehurst Richardson, Texas 75080 </pre>

[Guest.Visitor]

The premature reports of the death of RPG, remind me of what they were saying about COBOL when I first started in this business - over fifteen years ago. The amount of legacy code (still running beatifully) at there for COBOL and RPG will insures that both languages will be around awhile. There's never time to do it right, but.....there's always time to do it over.

[Guest.Visitor]

On Friday, July 31, 1998, 11:47 AM, Jo Ann Burelle wrote: The premature reports of the death of RPG, remind me of what they were saying about COBOL when I first started in this business - over fifteen years ago. ... [/i] Excellent point Jo Ann. Computer language development doesn't take place overnight, and they don't die overnight. Rather than dying, the languages get stronger, and we as programmers have to contend with keeping up with seemingly endless language versions. RPG II/III/IV is a good example. C/C++/ILE C is another. As is Cobol/36/400/ILE Cobol. With Java it was 1.0 (about 250 methods), to 1.1 (over 500 methods), to 1.2 (??? methods) in the future. Proven languages change, but they sure don't die that often. RPG is a proven language because it works.

[frankgw@adelphia.net]

On Friday, July 31, 1998, 02:43 AM, J V Thompson wrote: Well I'm fresh back from the annual COMMON conference down-under, and think it worthwhile to share a few impressions gathered. ************************************************** ******************** Thanks so much for sharing your impressions with us. This is the kind of sharing that makes this forum such a great place to hang out. By the way, my hamberger ad stress level just dropped back down a notch. Thanks again! Just an old mainframer caught in the Web!