Re: Calling Java from RPG - CLASSPATH Problem?

Opinions and belly buttons....



Shannon O'Donnell


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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Calling Java from RPG - CLASSPATH Problem?


> Shannon,
>
> >We have two "older" programmers, probably three, here, who, if the
company
> were to suddenly decide to dump RPG and go to Java or Visual Basic or
.Net,
> would be unemployable.  They don't understand, or for that matter, even
care
> to learn the complexities of another, any other, language.
>
> 1)  Not wanting to learn new things is a personal preference, not
something
> that can be blamed on IBM.
>
> 2)  How many super-duper VB or Java programmers can walk into an RPG shop,
> if their favorite language was being dumped and be productive right away?
> Or for that matter switching from any considerably different language
> (which most are) to another?
>
> > Being the best RPG programmer at your shop, heck, in your state!, in
> today's
> world, is, in my opinion, equivalent to being the best blacksmith in New
> York city. Sure it's a great skill to have, but what are you going to do
> when all the horses are gone?
>
>  The argument that RPG is going away has been made for the last 15-20
> years, so I'm not buying it.  Should one expand their realm of expertise?
> Of course!  Interoperability / cross platform processing is a good area to
> know.  But the "chicken little" attitude about RPG is self defeating,
IMHO.
>
>  As to IBM making things too easy, should we all switch to IFS, byte
> stream, maybe null or CR/LF, multi-format flat files, becuase DB records
> are too easy to use?  Should we do away w/ user *CMD creation, because
it's
> too easy and no other platform has it?  Etc, etc.  I think that that's a
> silly direction to take (and I hope that you do too!)
>
>  -mark
>
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