Re: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison

James,

In a message dated 2/13/01 9:40:27 PM US Eastern Standard Time, 
jamesl@hb.quik.com writes:

> The only advantages I see in RPG are (1) its ability to "ride around an
>  entire file on its logic cycle" (pun intended), and (2) ease of issuing
>  external calls where the name is not known at compile time.

There are several advantages other than those:
1.  The very logic cycle you cast aspersion upon (although almost none of us 
use it these days).  There is no faster way to write a "quick and dirty" 
record update program without SQL.  There is also no faster report to be had.
2.  Personnel available to use it.  There are plenty of Uenouchs out there, 
but how many actually know how to run a business?  Most RPG programmers do.
3.  It's the language most actively supported by IBM.

>  Other than that, I can think of quite a few things other than "report
>  program generator" for the letters RPG to stand for, none of them 
> complimentary.

Same for JAVA like, "Microsoft doesn't support it".  Oooh, don't guess those 
are initials.  Does make a point though, unless Sun takes over the desktop, 
JAVA's future has been _SEVERELY_ limited...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Justice is incidental to law and order." -- J. Edgar Hoover
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