Re: Death of the RPG Programmer

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

stupid? if they make money on it is that stupid?
Money for them, I mean.

They are certainly already penalizing green-screen
applications (most are RPG) with the CNFINTxx
governor. I may have put the point to crudely, I should
have said "the AS/400 server models are *optimized* for
Java and Web applications".

----- Original Message -----
From: Bale, Dan <DBale@lear.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:48 PM
Subject: RE: Death of the RPG Programmer


> Careful there, Leif.  I'm halfway between laughing and crying.  You used no
> emoticons.  IBM couldn't do anything that stupid, could they?
>
> - Dan Bale
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leif Svalgaard [SMTP:leif@leif.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:16 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Death of the RPG Programmer
> >
> > From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
> >
> > > what you don't hear them talk about is how well Java performs compared
> > to
> > > RPG.  RPG, for traditional processing, knocks the socks off Java, but
> > IBM
> > > is scared to say so.
> > >
> >
> > There is a rumor going around that IBM has (will?) slow down RPG
> > with a suitable governor to make Java look better....
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