Re: XML and AS/400

I read between the lines :) I knew what you intended to say.

Bob Crothers wrote:
> 
> Correction!!
> 
> The line:
> 
> >>
> If I sounded like "you cant move from RPG to OO", that is what I
> intended.
> <<
> 
> Should read:
> >>
> If I sounded like "you cant move from RPG to OO", that is NOT what I
> intended.
> <<<
> 
> Talk about throwing gas on the fire!
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Bob Crothers
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: XML and AS/400
> 
> L.S.,
> 
> If I sounded like "you cant move from RPG to OO", that is what I
> intended.  Because it CAN be done.  I have.  And others have.
> 
> Hopefully, any ruffled feathers are now smoothed back out...mine are,
> and I truly hope yours & Jim's are also.  I think it all comes down to
> "Fast Guns shouldn't draw on each other"! <g>
> 
> Catch you later,
> Bob
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: L. S. Russell <leslier@datrek.com>
> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 4:45 PM
> Subject: Re: XML and AS/400
> 
> > I apologize for sounding so snide, I realize that not all those who
> > propounds the excellence of oop are as pedantic as some.
> > And I totally agree that moving from RPG, or plain old pascal (not
> > turbo) to oop is a bit of a stretch for some but, think about the
> first
> > time you sat down in front of a terminal. Think of the very first
> > program you wrote in RPG, think back to the time when you realized
> you
> > really understood the fixed logic cycle.
> > Non of us were born programmers, we all began somewhere, oop is
> nothing
> > more than a new technique. If one of you can do it, so can I, and I
> am
> > sure Jim feels the same way, and I am certain he and I are not the
> only
> > ones.
> >
> >
> > Bob Crothers wrote:
> > >
> > > L.S.,
> > >
> > > Rest assured, this is NOT what I was trying to say (that anybody
> was "not
> > > intelligent").
> > >
> > > Most of the members on this list do fit into the "procedural
> language"
> > > category because they are AS/400 folks.
> > >
> > > And using an OO language does NOT mean you use object oriented
> design.  I
> > > wrote C using a C++ compiler for over a year.
> > >
> > > Object Oriented is not complicated...but it is DIFFERENT!  And it
> takes time
> > > to learn.  But it is well worth learning.  Not because of Java, but
> because
> > > of OO.
> > >
> > > If you are that rare exception that can move from a procedural
> language to
> > > object oriented design in a matter of days and with no pain, then
> one of 2
> > > things apply: You are using your OO language to do procedural
> programming
> > > (very possible, even with Java), -or- you are one very exceptional
> > > programmer and I am blinded by your brilliance.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> > > Behalf Of L. S. Russell
> > > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:26 PM
> > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > > Subject: Re: XML and AS/400
> > >
> > > > You are not the only one to suggest that I am having problems
> > > > with objects whenever I mention I am having trouble with object
> > > > oriented languages (usually Java).  That is just not the case.
> > > Isn't that always the way, whenever you express such heretical
> ideas as
> > > disgust with java. It is never because the language is poorly
> designed,
> > > oh no, it must be that you are just not intelligent enough to grasp
> the
> > > complicated object oriented methodology.
> > >
> > > --
> > > L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
> > > Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
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