On Friday 29 May 2009 16:12, Bill Washburn wrote: > Does anyone have a reasonably good idea of
I'm not sure my opinion is "reasonable" > a) how many active VSE shops there are worldwide? thousands, but probably fewer now than there were last year > b) how many VSE shops have any RPGII code in production? based on my experience, something like 10%, but I don't really know. I was involved in over 100 VSE-to-MVS conversions and my recollection is that only a few customers (perhaps 10%) used RPG. Some of them used RPG a lot ! I learned RPG in 1969 and wrote RPG programs until 1974. RPG was designed for punch-cards, and like DYL260, requires programmers to write code in specific columns. Not really convenient when programmers use 3270-type terminals instead of card-punch machines. I think there is half-a-dozen RPG-to-COBOL conversion tools Iin case you're interested). http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/RPG-ZOS.shtml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
