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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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