Re: XML and AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

L.S.,

If I sounded like "you cant move from RPG to OO", that is what I
intended.  Because it CAN be done.  I have.  And others have.

Hopefully, any ruffled feathers are now smoothed back out...mine are,
and I truly hope yours & Jim's are also.  I think it all comes down to
"Fast Guns shouldn't draw on each other"! <g>

Catch you later,
Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: L. S. Russell <leslier@datrek.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: XML and AS/400


> I apologize for sounding so snide, I realize that not all those who
> propounds the excellence of oop are as pedantic as some.
> And I totally agree that moving from RPG, or plain old pascal (not
> turbo) to oop is a bit of a stretch for some but, think about the
first
> time you sat down in front of a terminal. Think of the very first
> program you wrote in RPG, think back to the time when you realized
you
> really understood the fixed logic cycle.
> Non of us were born programmers, we all began somewhere, oop is
nothing
> more than a new technique. If one of you can do it, so can I, and I
am
> sure Jim feels the same way, and I am certain he and I are not the
only
> ones.
>
>
> Bob Crothers wrote:
> >
> > L.S.,
> >
> > Rest assured, this is NOT what I was trying to say (that anybody
was "not
> > intelligent").
> >
> > Most of the members on this list do fit into the "procedural
language"
> > category because they are AS/400 folks.
> >
> > And using an OO language does NOT mean you use object oriented
design.  I
> > wrote C using a C++ compiler for over a year.
> >
> > Object Oriented is not complicated...but it is DIFFERENT!  And it
takes time
> > to learn.  But it is well worth learning.  Not because of Java, but
because
> > of OO.
> >
> > If you are that rare exception that can move from a procedural
language to
> > object oriented design in a matter of days and with no pain, then
one of 2
> > things apply: You are using your OO language to do procedural
programming
> > (very possible, even with Java), -or- you are one very exceptional
> > programmer and I am blinded by your brilliance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> > Behalf Of L. S. Russell
> > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:26 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: XML and AS/400
> >
> > > 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.
> > Isn't that always the way, whenever you express such heretical
ideas as
> > disgust with java. It is never because the language is poorly
designed,
> > oh no, it must be that you are just not intelligent enough to grasp
the
> > complicated object oriented methodology.
> >
> > --
> > L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
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