RE: Future of AS/400 ??????????????:(: -- RPG400-L

> Appearently I was not clear.  --snip--
> Based on personal 
> experience, it is my
> opinion that C is the root of all the languages used for web 
> application
> programming (whether they are CGI, Java, or anything else).

Still not clear.  Are you saying because C may be used to write compilers,
virtual machine, engines, or is the basis of syntax for these other
languages that makes C the root of the languages?  That box is already owned
by pandora.  (BTW, CGI is not a programming laguange).

> 
> Continuing in my effort to be clear, I am not opposed to RPG 
> in these roles
> nor do I assert that RPG cannot do well in these roles.  
> Based on personal
> experience, it is my opinion that C, Java, etc are the 
> current winners.  

What is your experiences based upon?  I'm not mocking here, I'm serious.
Maybe we're coming from two different angles alltogether which is why we
view this differently.  

Just for the record, my experience comes from working in a variety of
business applications and companies ranging from startup to billions of
dollars a year.  The majority by far is cold fusion running on NT with MS
IIS servers and SQL DB.  And a splash of linux for firewall/proxy.  

After fighting with trying to get data between NT and AS/400, and since all
our back end systems are AS/400, the use of the AS/400 for web serving is
proving most benificial and a worthy cause.  

I'm not saying if you're using NT to switch to AS/400 and eRPG.  I'm saying
if you're using AS/400, use AS/400 for your web server.

> Being "swayed by the majority" is what I 
> keep trying to
> tell you about.  The majority of web servers are Unix, C, 
> Java, and CGI.

Don't make me ask for your sources of this info.  We already went through
this thread on Midrange-L.  :)

>  I
> am swayed.  When RPG takes over the world, I will report that, in my
> opinion, RPG has taken over the world.

Still not clear.  I think you have your terms web server, CGI language, etc.
mixed up.  I assume you meant to say "RPG has not taken over the world."
Otherwise you'd be using e-RPG according to your statement.  ;)

> 
> I don't care about the boxes or the languages (because they 
> don't care back)
> but I do care about the people.  I wish you well.  Keep 
> helping people use
> RPG in this role.  Don't try to blow smoke, it is unbecoming.

But you just said you did care about the box/language because the majority
use C, Unix, Java, etc.

And I quote:
"Based on personal experience, it is my opinion that C, Java, etc are the
current winners.  I will advise customers and make personal training and
career decisions based on that opinion."

Who's blowing smoke?

Peace, brother, we can have differences of opinions and still exist in the
same universe.

Brad
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