RE: Trend towards platform specific languages

It's so vendors can build one set of software and have it run equally
crappy on multiple platforms.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Trend towards platform specific languages
> From: "Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, October 06, 2005 12:48 pm
> To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ok...while I sit here twiddling my thumbs waiting for a java-based website to 
> open...(can you say IBM?)... I can't help but wonder if we are eventually 
> going to see the pendulum swing back and the current fad of making everything 
> non-platform specific will thankfully and hopefully die and instead we'll 
> move back to writing code using whatever language runs best (fastest, cleaner 
> and more stable) on whatever O/S and hardware it's designed for.
> 
> If it's on an iSeries, let it be RPG or Cobol.  If it?s on a Windows machine, 
> let it be .Net.  If it's on a unix box...send it back and buy an iSeries.
> 
> 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?!?
> 
> Maybe i'm having a bad day but here I am 3 minutes later and my page on ibm's 
> site hasjust now opened (and i'm on a T1 line today) and this 
> eclipse/java/Websphere bandwagon seems somewhat luducrous to me at the moment.
> 
> 
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