RE: Death of the RPG Programmer

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

But that is a batch vs. interactive governor.  That has nothing to do with
RPG.

I guess I'm thinking of "stupid" as in "stupid enough to cut their own
throats".

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [SMTP:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:25 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Death of the RPG Programmer
> 
> 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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