Re: Web apps on the AS/400

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> > > 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?  :)


It has great potential, but as you yourself point out, what is important is a
well-designed program in ANY language. It is just that Joe and others
seem to equate Java with good design (even using "counter-intuitive"
stuff) and RPG with bad design. Now there certainly are many more
badly designed RPG programs our there than badly designed Java
programs, as  program maintainers we all have our horror stories
to tell, but that is just because RPG has been around a lot longer than Java.

Leif




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