Re: XML and AS/400

Exactly, we have been through this before java is not the best tool for
every job. 
I am with Hans, programmers should learn these languages just in case
but I can't think of a good place to use java, RPG does everything I
need to do on the 400 with no sweat. 
Tell ya what, you write a quick dirty java app to update a few records,
and I will write a quick dirty RPG app to do the same and lets see who
makes it to tea first. 
By the same token there are places where writing an app in straight RPG
is becoming foolish simply, because there are better tools for the job. 

Kurt Goolsbee wrote:
> 
> I assume you feel the same way about Java on the AS/400.
> 
> Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:50 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: XML and AS/400
> 
> > So, XML isn't new, as you say, it's just a new way of doing things.  >
> Because
> > it is similar to HTML, which is internet which is java which is linux
> which
> > is buzz...  it has to be the best way to do things.
> Yeah XML is just a superset of SGML nothing really new just more
> non-standard standards (kinda like the ANSI X12).
> I have seen a few things that XML might be useful for but I can't really
> justify delving into XML while the standards comity is still up in the
> air about it.
> It appears to me that Brad is right, just because its new doesn't mean
> it is the best. I still drive a two door 69 Impala (since high school)
> and my brother is going through his second late model car. To me old
> reliable is always better than new unstable. And since there seems to be
> a technology turnover rate of less than six months you can afford to
> wait until XML becomes more standard, and stable (IMHO).
> 
> (This is me preparing to be flamed)
> 
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