RE: RPG,COBOL or JAVA -- MIDRANGE-L

Just another 2 cents; As long as there is a desire to develop in a
particular language, and as long as it is acceptable to deliver object
code without source, It will make absolutely NO difference what the
underlying development language is.

Since it may not be clear what I am getting at here, I will state that
if I need to develop a GUI, I will develop a tool to do so if one does
not exist. If I do not tell you I did it in Smalltalk, you may believe
it to be Java, I f I do not tell you it is Assembler, you may believe
it to be Smalltalk! ......... 

My point here is that as long as the end is accomplished and a good
(great in my case :-) ) result is achieved the means is less important
than all of this hoopla would lead one to believe. My choice of tools
for driving a nail will always be a hammer, but if I have no hammer, I
will make one! My choice for business applications will most likely
always be COBOL unless and until something proves itself better! If I
need a GUI tool that is COBOL friendly and one does not exist.......

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Howard Weatherly

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howard.weatherly@ctg.com
hweath@ibm.net

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 <<RE: RPG,COBOL or JAVA>>

Subject: RE: RPG,COBOL or JAVA
From: mcrump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 00:34:24 -0500




<The BIG package vendors are moving
<to Java.   It won't be the inhouse developed apps that Roger was
speaking
of
<when he said "40% will be Java"  It will be the bought'n packages in
a few
<years that will be Java.

Even those that aren't on the AS/400 are making the move.  We've had
two
different vendors in with NT/Unix applications that are moving from
C++ to
Java.  For them it's an easy port and easy skills transition..........

 <New people AIN'T learning RPG,  NO ONE wants Green anymore, PERIOD.
<Whether GUI is better or not, it's an extraneous argument.

Very, very true.  I kept tight lipped during the GUI discussion but
stronly
agree it is now a truly extraneous argument.  GUI is winning and will
probably continue to do so.  Forget whether it should or not, look at
what
people want and expect.....

<What you develop in house and what language you use will NOT affect
what
<the commercial software companies will develop new apps in.  It WILL
be
<Java most likely.

Transitioning your skills to Java is a very good idea.  Java is not
the
ultimate goal but OO, GUI, SQL, etc. is.  In a few years there will be
something else to learn but some of these skills will last much
longer.
Again it is not a case of which is better.






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