Re: HP Stimulus Package

OK - I'm beating a dead horse but I'll try one more time to penetrate the walls of your preconceptions and actually get you to TALK TO THE POINT.

On 6-Feb-09, at 4:15 PM, Steve Richter wrote:

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

AND NEITHER DOES HP!!!! They have NO MIGRATION PATH that doesn't involve every bit as much work or more as any of many available native i solutions.

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.

WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING.

I don't disagree with the features you suggest for the most part. BUT YOU WON'T GET THEM WITH HP - and THAT is what we are supposed to be discussing.

If you want to start a thread on modernizing 5250 apps go for it - but it is so tedious when you keep hijacking other threads.

And now I really have wasted as much time on this as I'm going to. If I write more it will be to IBM or HP.


Jon Paris

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