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"Joe Pluta" wrote:
(none of this Extreme Programming crap)
For my part, I haven't a clue what "this Extreme Programming crap" is. But being ideologically opposed to all forms of extremism, I don't think I even WANT to know.
And be aware: I am no Java fanatic. I have long held that whenever ANYBODY promotes ANY programming language as being universally best (yes, even PL/I), they're wrong.
Programming languages should be chosen according to their strengths and weaknesses with respect to the problem at hand. That's why QuestView, for example, is implemented in a combination of MI and RPG. Why ThinView has a Java client and an ILE C server. Why Wintouch has a Java client, and server programs linked up from ILE RPG and ILE C modules. Why the only server-side Java in any Touchtone product is a workaround I developed to sidestep the issue of OS/400 mail APIs requiring an OS/400 mail server in order to function. When I chose to implement the new workflow trigger for Wintouch as a recursive-descent parser in ILE RPG, calling a scanner in ILE C, it wasn't just because it looked like an interesting intellectual exercise: it also gave me access to RPG's much better interface with the database.
And when desktop software is tied to one particular combination of hardware and operating system, rather than having a platform-independent codebase, the developer may be making the vendor of that operating system very happy, but he or she is doing his or her customers a grave disservice.
-- JHHL
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