RE: OO benefits? (was Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero )

>> Is this list restricted to "business programmers"?

Of course not.  But I find it hard to listen to a debate about some of the
ongoing merits of RPG (or of green screen programming) without putting it in the
context of business programming; we're kidding ourselves if we think we're going
to sell RPG to computer scientists in universities, or to system architects
doing operating system programming. And when I look at problems in the domain of
business programming, I just don't happen to believe IBM has a corner on all the
most competitive tools and languages that can be leveraged.  IBM has finally
packaged together a number of good things, including web facing, in the V5R1
iSeries programming packages, and I'm certainly not trying to knock them down...
I just wanted to encourage people to look a little ways outside the IBM box for
ideas!

Janet