Re: XML and AS/400

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Delphi is also Object Oriented, although it doesn't really compile
to true objects.  VC++ is object oriented.  I program in both of
these, as well as VB.  It is not the objects that is the problem.

You are not the only one to suggest that I am having problems
with objects whenever I mention I am having trouble with object
oriented languages (usually Java).  That is just not the case.

The fact is, though, that I come from the PC world, not the main-
frame world.  I didn't get into RPG until maybe 4 or 5 years ago.
Before that I was programming in FORTRAN, COBOL, Basic
(many versions, Quick Basic, QBasic, Visual Basic, Wang Basic,
etc..), APL, Pascal (Borland Pascal, Delphi), C (again, many
versions), Assembly (80x86), and many, many more.

It was actually a paradigm shift for me to learn RPG since most
of the code is written in RPG II. (Where the heck am I inputting
this record, where is the read statement?  Where is my write
statement?  Oh no, this looks like COBOL!  Arg).

Regards,

Jim Langston

Bob Crothers wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Re J++ and after a week you having little success:
>
> I am not surprised at this.  What the Trade rags forget when saying Java
> will take over the world is that Java is object oriented.  And for a
> procedural programmer such as an RPG person (Or Cobol, Fortran, etc), OO is
> a huge paradigm shift.  It will take you more than a week to learn.  And
> years to learn well.
>
> Don't get me wrong, the pain of moving to OO is well worth it, just like the
> pain of stop smoking is well worth it (or so I am told...I am going thru
> this right now <g>).  But there is pain in doing it.
>
> Bob
>
> PS: I am not a Java advocate so much as an OO advocate...C++ is my poison of
> choice

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