RE: Time to get serious

True...all good points...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Time to get serious
> From: "James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, February 25, 2005 2:14 pm
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm...what can't you do? Not rabble rousing, just curious.
> 
> Remember, you said anything you can do in any language, you can do in RPG. 
> Well, how about OOP?  RPG isn't an OO language.  How about a DVD player? 
> What about typedef (user defined data types)?  Multi-dimensional arrays? 
> Cross platform portability?
> 
> Most of these probably don't matter to the average AS/400 programmer.  But 
> a blanket statement like "RPG can do anything any other language can" is 
> going too far.  The AS/400 has enough good points that we don't need to 
> make big over-statements.
> 
> James Rich
> 
> It's not the software that's free; it's you.
>       - billyskank on Groklaw
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