Re: IBM i "Open I/O" Architecture

Alan Campin wrote:

My personal experience is that 30% is an extremely high number. In the
programmers I have worked with over the last 13 years, I have seen exactly
zero doing modern programming. People fight it like death itself. The only

Exactly how do you define "modern programming"?

I would argue that the biggest problem with programmers is that far too many of them insist on using only one language. Hence my reference to Maslow's Hammer.

If you're only using one language, it's bound to be the worst possible solution for the problem at hand, at least part of the time.

If The Cycle is useful in solving a problem, use it.

Some problems are best solved using SQL, while others are best solved using native RLA, while still others are best solved using hybrid techniques.

One of our products has around eighty separate programs (including command-line utilities) in its server, the largest of which contains eight modules. Most are in ILE RPG, but some are in ILE C, some in CL (both ILE and OPM), some ILE programs contain modules in more than one language (including both C calling RPG and RPG calling C), and there is even one OPM RPG program, as well as one in OPM MI. And it uses a Java client with hundreds of classes. Hardly a monolithic application.

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James H. H. Lampert
Mixed-Language Programmer