Re: Have you read this?

But you know as well as I that there are programmers that fight tooth
and nail over a language (perl vs. python). Thats not what really irks
me, what gets me is the fact that in one issue they are "oh RPG is the
way and the light" [see April 1999 issue News 400 page 63], and the very
next issue they flip flop to an article like the one we are talking
about.
I my experience it is never programmers who give up on a platform, or
cause its death, it is marketing. Take CP/M, and Amiga for instance, by
all two very dead OS's and yet you can still download compilers, games,
web browsers, graphic utilities .... for these OS's. Take a look at what
caused these systems to fall into disuse and you won't find that it is a
lack of programming talent, or utilities. 

"Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:
> 
> I don't know this author personally, but I am friends with and deal with
> similar personalities (writers) when it comes to Java.
> 
> I believe the author was using Humor as a shield to state his view that he
> truely does believe RPg is dead and that Java is the ONLY future.
> 
> Brad
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Hall [mailto:jhall@hillmgt.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 1:15 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Have you read this?
> >
> >
> > I say we hang the cowardly author in effigy
> >
> > or in the immortal words of "coach"
> >
> > "to hell with Effigy.  Let's string him up right here !!"
> >
> >
> > You know this is a JOKE article!!  Have you ever heard of sarcasm ???
> > Did you notice it said (humor column).  Did it EVER occur to you that
> > the whole point of the article was that every time someone writes off
> > the system as dead it comes back stronger than ever ???
> >
> > Oh well I guess now I've overstated my point too.
> >
> > John Hall
> > Home Sales Co.
> >
> >
> > "L. S. Russell" wrote:
> > >
> > > But yes I do think it is cowardly. I mean the authors name,
> > upon closer
> > > inspection is buried at the bottom amid a puppy dogs bio?
> > At the very
> > > least have the gumption to speak "your" mind.
> > > And I get so sick and tired of reading how this or that is the death
> > > knell of the AS/400 (and or RPG). Remember how java was touted "the
> > > programing language of the future"? How java was supposed
> > to supplant
> > > RPG as the midrange language of choice?
> > > RPG is still around, so is the 400, and I may be wrong but isn't IBM
> > > bringing back support for Netware? So, again IMHO, the article is
> > > neither funny nor right on. It is just another MicroSoft drumbeater
> > > thumping his cheats.
> > >
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