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  • Subject: Re: Legacy code.
  • From: Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 14:47:19 -0400

Chris,

<snip>
>Right now, I would suspect that the best ROI for AS/400 development comes
>from ILE RPG and VA RPG mixed. I think that before there will be enough of
>an advantage to switching to Java, ILE RPG will receive the bytecode
>compiler and more OO improvements. As a result, a shop doing ILE
>development today might be the best development ROI for the next 5 years. 
<snip>

Perhaps I need to look very closely at ILE again.  Last time I looked, it didn't
co-exist too well with OPM: the interaction between named activation groups
and the default activation group left something to be desired.  Also, lack of
MAKE and documentation tools.  

There was the sense here that ILE was too little, too late (but that doesn't 
mean much).  The biggest hurdle here was teaching OO design
methodology to people who've never heard of it.  "Too much learning
curve" was what I kept hearing...  Is that just a rumour?

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Rensselaer, NY

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