RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Comparing Java to C# is the same as comparing Java to RPG while leaving
> out any mention of ILE.  ILE is what makes RPG a very good language.
> .NET does the same for C#.

Funny, I thought it was the ability of an RPG program to ride through an
entire file on "The Cycle" (speaking of cyccles, did anybody see last
night's Angels game?), or to make other, less conventional uses of "The
Cycle" (which I do with some regularity) that made RPG a good language
(no, not "very good").

Go with the STRENGTHS of a language.

Speaking of which, the STRENGTH of Java is that it ISN'T TIED TO ONE
PLATFORM, and DOESN'T NEED TO BE RECOMPILED FOR DIFFERENT PLATFORMS.
(Anybody else still regularly move AS/400 *PGM objects back and forth
between CISC and RISC boxes?)

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JHHL