RE: framework question

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Franco Biaggi
> 
> I have more than 30 year experience on midrange programming (RPG),
> and more than 10 years in OOP.

Franco, I've got 25 years in RPG and 10 years in OOP, dating back to
Smalltalk and then C++.  I have six years in Java.  And I can still
program business logic quicker in RPG than any other language.


> do not forget that RPG is a REPORT GENERATOR PROGRAM, not a language.
> OO is another world that cannot be compared...

This simply isn't true anymore, and really hasn't been since the
addition of structured opcodes.  But ILE RPG and the introduction of
true procedures makes the language even that much more powerful, and in
fact I use it to do things that I would traditionally have used C or
Java for in the past.

But as far as pure database access, nothing beats native I/O of RPG, and
the arithmetic processing capabilities of RPG are the best in the
industry.  Do you really think it's faster to use JDBC and BigDecimal
instead of CHAIN and EVAL?  I don't.


> Simply OO programming thake 10% of the time compared to RPG, very easy
> on maintenance etc.

I guess it depnds on the programmer.  I bet I can write an MRP
generation faster in RPG than you can in Java.  Not only that, mine will
run faster and be easier to add features.


> Sorry for my bad english.

It's better than my Italian, Franco!!  <smile.