RE: Green screen to GUI

Nope. I agree rpg is an order of magnitude better for business logic.  However, 
I can perform magic with vb in terms of functionality, useability and vastly 
reduced development time.  I could very likely do the same with java but, for 
me anyway, java development is slower and the output from my own work (i'm sure 
yours is tons faster!), is slower than the equivalent asp made from vb.  That 
could very well be a factor of my lack of steady experience with java, but who 
knows.  

And, on a personal level, I have a lot of fun coding with vb.  If it WERE 
available as a development tool for iseries, then I'd imagine there'd be a lot 
more interest in iseries from the schools, businesses and other programmers.

-----Original Message-----
    From: "Joe Pluta"<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Sent: 9/21/05 10:26:42 AM
    To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI
    
    For business logic?  Heck no.  BASIC is a crappy language for business
    logic.  RPG is much better.
    
    What you want is a seamless integration between a platform-agnostic UI
    definition language and an RPG back end.  The sad thing is that IBM
    could do that today by tying the UML portion of Rational to a back-end
    RPG generator.
    
    Joe
    
    > From: Shannon O'Donnell
    > 
    > Amen brother.
    > 
    > Personally, (and this is going to get me booed on this list...) I
    would
    > love to see a port of MS Visual Basic to the iSeries.
    
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