Re: Web apps on the AS/400

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: Web apps on the AS/400


> Actually, Leif, I enjoy these discussions just before I go off to teach.
It
> brings all the good concepts up to the surface and makes me really review
my
> opinions and positions on things.  I'm a pretty good teacher, but a lot of
> that is because I really believe in what I teach, and it's good for me to
> review this stuff.
>
> And like I said, I really respect what you've done with MI, so I appreciate
> the give and take.  Thanks again for the opportunity for me to reinforce my
> views.

good to hear. I was playing "Devil's advocate" a little bit, because some
of my objections *I also hear*. Not everything I said was original with me.
:-)
I keep preaching the importance of *always* going through an interface
whenever you call *anything* external to your program, but I get lectured
about performance, "matter of taste", programmers' laziness (actually
a lazy programmer is often a good programmer).



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