Re: ADVERTISING SUPPORT/ComputerWorld 7/28 - LONG

[Lou Schmaus <lschmaus@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob Cozzi wrote:

Major snipping > 

> The think about JAVA is that it is our industry's decease of the week, this
> week.

> of these blanket statements telling use successful AS/400 developers to
> stop using X in order to use Y is stupid. Where are these new decease of
> the week coming from? They come from the rest of the industry. The 
> 
> manipulate languages like RPG, COBOL, and PL/I. Java pretty close to an
> okay, stable language and perhaps it will become another COBOL or RPG. 

> all get board with the same thing day in and day out. We get board with
> green screen terminals, so we get color, we get board with color and we get

> people writing magazine article and doing lectures get really board talking

> 
> We as developers get board too. We have the unique opportunity, within 
> That is if we get board with RPG, we can go do something else, such as work

> Just because a few developers, magazine writers and analysts are board with

> that bell or whistle, but the AS/400 is were its at. And the AS/400 



Bob,

Please, please, please, tell me you are dictating this stuff to someone
to whom English is a second, or even third language! If not, get into a
twelve-step as soon as possible. Get help soon!


Lou Schmaus
Creative Computer Associates, Inc.
Parlin, NJ 08859
lschmaus@home.com


P.S.    If it it not off-topic, I would like to suggest some sort of prize
be given for whoever can find the most slip-ups in Bob's messages from
now on. It will be sort of like the 'Find Waldo' cartoons.
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