RE: Web apps on the AS/400

Hahha!!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:58 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Web apps on the AS/400
> 
> 
> Brad, you definitely need to lighten up.  It's in no way a 
> personal attack
> for me to say that e-RPG is rigid compared to OO technology.  
> Go to your
> archives, if you want.  You were dissing Java as a language 
> while asking
> basic questions on how to use it.  I told you to write some 
> code before you
> dissed the language, and you told me to get off my high horse.
> 
> As to my opinion on e-RPG, as a veteran of over 20 years of 
> RPG programming,
> I am definitely entitled to an opinion as to whether RPG is suited for
> developing HTML applications.  And my opinion is that it's 
> not.  Java is
> better for vector and string manipulation than RPG, even RPG 
> IV, and is far
> better for the sorts of OO techniques that make designing 
> widgets easy.
> Techniques such as Decorator classes, which you are busily 
> asking about (and
> I am just as busily answering) on JAVA400-L.  You ask my help 
> there and then
> call me out here.
> 
> No, an informed decision doesn't provoke a response on 
> JAVA400-L.  You get
> whapped on JAVA400-L when you post things like, "Also, Java 
> doesn't solve
> these problems, which is why it is more theory that reality," 
> while at the
> same time you're asking basic questions like, "how would I 
> declare FILENAME
> as static final?".  Dissing without paying dues.  I hate that.
> 
> And so I did a little whapping!  WHEEEE!
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Stone, 
> Brad V (TC)
> > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 3:38 PM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: Web apps on the AS/400
> >
> >
> > > e-RPG provides fast development at the price of
> > > a rather rigid architecture.  Or else why would the author of
> > > e-RPG be "tinkering" with Java?
> > >
> > > ;)
> >
> > First, just because I wrote a book on e-RPG doesn't mean 
> that that is the
> > only technology I will use.  Just wait for my Java book for e-RPG
> > programmers.  :)  Hitting stores in late 2002, just when people
> > will want to
> > start tinkering. <bg>
> >
> > Second, "rigid" is your opinion and point of view.
> >
> > Lastley, if more Java folks should play with e-RPG.  Taking 
> an application
> > and duplicating it across both technologies would show it's 
> not as "rigid"
> > as some think.  (Hello World applications don't count as "I 
> have done
> > e-RPG".)
> >
> > Did I take the comment too serious?  Yes.  Why?  If the roles
> > were reversed
> > and I posted something like this on the Java list, even 
> with a winking
> > smiley, I know I'd get the **ADMIN WARNING** messages 
> because it could be
> > taken as a personal attack... (archives can prove that... <bg>)
> 
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