Re: HP Stimulus Package

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6-Feb-09, at 1:36 PM, Steve Richter wrote:

Steve - you've written some odd stuff before but this one tops the list.

how is it a lie? RPG has not been enhanced to include Java features
like managed code and classes ( so RPG code cant be modernized ).

It is a lie because IBM have not said you _have_ to do any such thing.

IBM does not have a migration path for RPG-5250 applications. They
have a PHP rewrite path.

It is a lie because you won't get _any_ of the things you talk about
when you run this on HP. It's an emulator for goodness sake - not the
second coming - it is not even new! And besides, what the heck has
"managed code and classes" go to do with anything?

modern languages have to be able to work with code libraries. To do
that best you need a memory model that can new an object in one code
module and free it in another. An IBM i shop should not have to
rewrite in PHP to moderninze. You should be able to inject javascript
and HTML in their 5250 display output to render a data grid. Or write
a code module in RPG which joins and unions an SQL result set, a
database table and a legacy mult occurance data struct.