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There is, www.asna.com puts it out.
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[quote user="RPGProfessional"][quote user="real_aardvark"]Nurse Goody: "Sorry, doctor. The RPG medical history report iterated through all 250 million US medical records, the circuit trip on the printer's air-con failed, it set fire to itself, and now the Goober wing of the hospital is toast. The scan is coming up right now."[/quote] Actually, the two largest hospital chains in the US (the world?) use System i5's and RPG to run their hospitals. I know the sys admin at one and several programmers at the other. This includes on-line record storage (scanned documents) as well as the normal relational tables. I'm pretty confident that they are not using System i5's and RPG because either is antiquated snd/or unreliable.
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i just finished a contract (was there for 3.5 years) at HCA one of the largest hospital management companies in the world. They use System i5's AND guess what...RPG. it's not antiquated OR unreliable. RPG has come a long way...too bad you don't(or refuse to) realize that.
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There is an RPG.net its sold by ASNA.
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Holy thread revival, I know - was just googling something and came across this thread. I work for a largish company, hundreds of sites throughout the uk, and at work I still write and maintain programs written in RPG II - not exclusively, we also write in COBOL and CPG (and I write in JS in my spare time) - but the majority is RPG II. We have fantastic reliability, and can process files with several million records in no time. Wouldn't go as far as to say it's my favourite language, but I do enjoy it, and it's certainly robust!
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Original poster here .... Interesting to see all these comments, especially the ones defending RPG (quite a lot actually).
To sum it up.... RPGIV (the latest incarnation) is not too bad, it's a bit like C (although no one would write a business app in C these days). However, the actual differentiator is the OS. IBM i as it as called now (since 2008 already), is really the best business platform in existence.
Btw... still programming in RPGIV (and Java, Javascript etc).