Re: iSeries web "stuff"

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think it was pretty clear Raul was talking actual limitations, not ease
of use (which is inherently in the eye of the beholder).

Ease of use is subjective, but sometimes differences get so large that
there is fairly widespread agreement, especially in terms of specific
features, types of problems/tasks, or programming styles.

If CGI is really just spitting out dynamic "Text" the calling language
wouldn't have any limitations unless it simply had no way to output data to
"standard output".

Funny you should mention that, because RPG *doesn't* have an easy,
built-in interface to "standard output"! You could argue this is not
RPG's fault so much as the fact that i5/OS and its successors don't
even really have a notion of "standard output" the way it's understood
in the rest of the computing world. To write to stdout in RPG, you
have to call a system API. To me, this is a limitation of RPG that
must be worked around (and CGIDEV2 does a reasonable job of it).

John