RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison

Right.  So you're supporting my point that the langauge used has little to
do with it and the programming does.  Also, Java doesn't solve these
problems, which is why it is more theory that reality.  In theory, you can
do all this wonderfull stuff with Java.  In reality, rarely does it get done
that way.  The same applies for any language.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Brosch [mailto:bbrosch@stecnet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:28 AM
> To: 'JAVA400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison
> 
> 
> Brad,
> 
> Same things can apply to RPG & CL.
> 
> If they are badly written, or java is badly written, portability
> suffers.
> 
> RPG & CL can have hard-coded libraries, etc.  All this can affect
> portibility.
> 
> Bill Brosch
> Swift Technologies
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:41 AM
> To: 'JAVA400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison
> 
> 
> > What happens when and I.S. manager decides to discontinue all 
> > support for
> > an AS/400 and move too Oracle or NT/2000. Unfortunately RPG 
> > cant port to
> > those systems. 
> 
> easy, that manager is fired because of a stupid move.
> 
> But honestly, we've seen this.  We bought a company who had unix,
> running
> java.  they needed to upgrade hardware.  We bought them a killer
> multi-proc
> as400.  They tried to port and port and port for over a year.  Finally
> ended
> up using a software package developed in RPG.
> 
> Brad
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