[MI400] Objects in QTemp: Mi Sledgehammer

["Richard Hart" <rhart@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Everybody,

!  First hardly any posts at all for two weeks and now this discussion!

Per Leif's comment about the MI sledgehammer; I would like (as a
neophyte MI guy, IMHO and all that), to suggest that MI is more like a
laser; SQL is the sledgehammer.  Now there's a tool that's  r e a l l y
dangerous!

I was briefly in a forum discussion on iseriesnetwork.com the other day
where someone wanted to know how you can access the stack (what program
called me:  a digital caller-id needed).  Someone else says, yes there
is a (new?) Api called  QWVRCSTK that does just that.  Wanting to
impress at least  s o m e b o d y , I said' yes and you can also do that
in MI:  only six program instructions (per Leif's original posting of
GETOWNLIB).

Someone came back with "you don't need MI; you can just call the C
run-time functions with MI built-ins to do the same thing."  I think the
MI method is cleaner and probably slightly quicker; I'm not an
&any_language_here& bigot, but why not use the best tool for the job.
Of course, the Api call would for most of us be more comfortable and
familiar.

But, MI is more  f u n.  Of course, if we didn't (most of us) have to
make a living with computers, life would really be a blast.