RE: Web apps on the AS/400

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > We just had a fairly long and enjoyable conversation on 
> JAVA400-L between
> > Brad Stone and I on how true OO design makes a simple 
> program incredibly
> > powerful.  In this case, we showed how, by changing his 
> design in some ways
> > that are counter-intuitive to most procedural programmers, 
> he would be able
> > to add the capability for his program to return either XML 
> or HTML by
> > changing just one line of code.
> 
> this is pure BS. I can do anything in one line of code if that line is
> allowed
> to draw upon things external to my program.

hold on here folks!  Joe is right.  I've been doing a lot of Java
programming lately and Joe and Fred Kulack and others have been VERY helpful
in showing me the light for OO design.  I appreciate all of their help.

Now, on the other end, I think I see Leif's point.  and he is right to a
point.  You do have to do a lot of little things to get one thing that does
a whole buncha stuff in one line.  But the advantage is, if designed right,
it can be used over and over and over in other applications.  The same holds
true for a very nicely designed ILE system as well, for the most part.  

Hey, can this holy war take over the cycle/no cycle or dow/dou debates?  :)

Brad
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