RE: Death of the RPG Programmer

["Erick Garske" <erick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Java would by nature be slower than RPG because its interpetive.

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From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Al Barsa, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:59 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Death of the RPG Programmer


At 12:15 PM 06/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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....

I don't think that they are that stupid, but anything is possible.

Al




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