Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

Because I want the best of both worlds (Procedural style for business logic
and OO for API framework style stuff).

When I am trying new things and pushing boundaries, it is much easier to
persuade the older programmers and managers you speak off, If I mention RPG
rather than JAVA or C++.

I like Java but for some reason I don't like it on the 400 (weird i
know).... I have come to the conclusion you have pointed to and started
learning C++, but I fear I will not be able to ever put anything using C++
into production as no one else could support it.

We are mainly a synon shop, so we don't actually have an "real" programmers,
by that I mean we have people who are excellent at database designed, logic
etc . But no one who is a real NERD :-)!!!




-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: 20 April 2010 20:09
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

Neill,

Let me ask you a "dumb" question...

Why do you want OO in _RPG_? If you want OO, why not use C++? Or Java?
Or Smalltalk? PHP? etc, etc.

Like many buzz-word topics, when OO was new everyone thought it was the
greatest thing ever, and they tried to make it The One True Solution for
everything. Then after all the hype settled down, we discovered that
some things worked better in OO, and some things are better
procedurally. In other words, it has it's pros and cons like anything else.

So why do you want RPG to be OO? There are lots of other languages that
are already OO that you can already use if you prefer the OO style? Why
completely re-do RPG (and basically change it into a completely
different language) instead of using one of these other tools?

history has shown us that large changes in the RPG language lead to slow
adoption. Older programmers and managers don't want to change to take a
completely different approach to doing the same thing.

If you want OO, why not use an existing OO language?


On 4/20/2010 11:45 AM, Neill Harper wrote:

Ok, I guess the questions has to be then why isn't there a demand.

There seems to be a demand on other platforms, and there seems to be a
demand for OO on the iSeries, java, PHP ile c++ are all OO.

So why isn't there a demand for OO RPG, I want it ;-)