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Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

Shannon O'Donnell wrote:
> I have to ask....WHY?!? Is it so critical that every application be 
> platform agnostic?  What kind of goofy logic is this that we've all 
> bought into the last few years?  We allow ourselves to sacrifice 
> performance and productivity (and experience) because someone has 
> convinced us that our order entry app should run equally well on an 
> iSeries AND! A toaster?!?

Funny you should mention this ... I just noticed something in the RPG
reference on the DELETE opcode
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0925083641.htm
or http://tinyurl.com/7lezz) ...

> Under the OS/400 operating system, if a read operation is done on the
> file specified in |file-name after a successful DELETE operation to 
> that file, the next record after the deleted record is obtained.

Seems interesting that they are qualifying ILE RPG behavior for the
OS400 operating system.

david

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