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On 9/14/05, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >> I've seen it a few times.. it's rare, but they do it... and it stinks.
> 
> It's apparently been part of a very successful strategy for MS - perhaps IBM
> are just following their lead?  There are certainly a few people on this
> list who are forever suggesting that IBM should adopt the MS philosophy
> <grin>

I definitely put myself in that camp.  I like the idea of being able
to make a living<g>.  What if IBM fully embraced Java as the
foundation of the iSeries architecture? Then all the apis would pass
garbaged collected objects as parameters.   That way something as
basic as the size of a character parameter would no longer be an
issue.  A string class object can be any length.

-Steve


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