Re: Time to get serious

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:24:38 -0600
> "SQL is good enough for most platforms, and most
> problems.  But when
> it's not, you need the raw power of native I/O, the power
> that only RPG
> can bring you.  RPG: assembly language for your database,
> available only
> on the iSeries!"

Doesn't native I/O (read, chain, etc) use SQL down in the
bowels of the system anyhow?  Dynamic SQL for some
applications is much more powerful and easier to use than
native I/O (in RPG programs).

To me, it sounds like you are trying to market for your
gain here.  :)  Don't take that the wrong way.  I agree
with it, but it's sort of weighted to one of your
solutions, isn't it?

> 
>  
> 
> "Your business runs on procedures, not objects.  Don't
> shoehorn your
> procedures into a language designed to format HTML -
> instead, use the
> best procedural language ever created: RPG.  RPG:
> designed to write
> business procedures, and available only on the iSeries."

What language was designed to format HTML?  Can't be the
big "J".  Unless you're taking their old marketing and
turning it around on them.  I'd never thought of Java as a
language designed to format HTML.  But many have tried to
use that as a reason to move to it.  :)

Brad