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Re: IBMi25


On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, at 10:55:48, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

you are not giving me anything specific to counter here Rob. Reading a
javascript book now by John Resig and the language is pretty awesome.
Closures, anonymous functions, functions as first class object. Maybe the
memory model or whatever of ILE makes it impossible for garbage collection
languages like java and javascript to work in that space. So the counter
being give me native mode CL, commands and system APIs in PASE so I can
operate solely on that side of the border.

I think it far more likely that the reason it hasn't been done is the difference between a compiled language (which all ILE languages are) and an interpreted language such as PHP or Javascript. Maybe as Javascript makes its presence felt on the server side we'll see it on IBM i - but it won't be an ILE language it just wouldn't fit the architecture.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com





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