Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Harris" <spanner@ihug.co.nz>


>
> with all due respect, I can't see how CFINT prevents programmers from
using
> any technique that is available to them with the development tools they
have.
>
>
> Don't get me wrong - I think IBM has botched both their pricing model and
> the presentation of the artificial limits imposed to simulate different
> hardware capacities, but arguing that CFINT restricts programmers is
rather
> bizarre from my point of view.
>
> True, it restricts them from doing things as they have ALWAYS done them,
> but it certainly doesn't constrain them in the way you are implying.
>

Hi Evan,

If you code in C++ the way that is best, that is by encapsulating everything
in classes, where strings are a class, allocated memory is another class, an
array is vector template, etc,...    such a pgm will be/could be very well
written and easily maintainable, ....  but will take a lot of cpu to run.

Running such a pgm on a 50 CPW system will not cut it.  Especially a system
with many users.  The end result:  pgms are not written in this manner,
vendors dont supply the tools needed, the add on function libraries, iSeries
programmers dont learn OOP.  Kind of the way the iSeries market is and has
been.

No ?

Steve Richter