Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch
From: "Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:30:36 -0300
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Steve Richter wrote:

On 12/11/06, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

Not necesarily. I have seen programmers spend a lot of time to writevery ineficient code.


efficient code takes longer to write and more effort to maintain.  The
i5 needs fast, modern hardware to survive because otherwise too much
effort is expended programming the system.  RPG and C are closer to
machine language than they are to PHP.

-Steve

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