Re: i5/OS is better than Linux.

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:14:27 -0400
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think it is more the case they cant do it without rewriting Linux
and breaking a lot of code. MSFT has to spend many $billions to
create .NET in order to get integrated exception, debugger and call
stack support.

I don't think that's right. I think making a framework to do what you
described would be a reasonable semester-long project for a small group
of graduate students.

your probably right, but what functionality does Linux provide that
i5/OS does not?

Even a brief answer to this would take pages. Perhaps the most
interesting functionality is the ability to mount a huge number of
file systems. One of my favorites allows the mounting of a remote
file system over SSH.

I would add that RPG is closer to C in the way it works than any other
language. And RPG is better than C in that it has F specs, better
procedure prototypes, built in functions and better string handling.

C and RPG are different tools for different jobs. I don't know how the
statement that RPG has "better procedure prototypes" could be supported
(they seem roughly equivalent to me, and C had function prototypes
decades before RPG did). BIFs are probably translated or expanded in
much the same way as C preprocessor statements.