RE: E-mail notification from AS400 -- RPG400-L

Can someone provide a easy to understand description of SIGNATURES.  I don't
quit understand why i should use them.  Thanks.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:22 AM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: E-mail notification from AS400


> > Why not Java?
> 
> Java is slow.   Furthermore, I find object oriented code to be a bit
> awkward, and a pain to debug.   This could be because I've been 
> programming too long -- but apparently others agree with me, since
> I've yet to see a complete application written in Java.
> 
> If I wanted a cross-platform language, I think I'd pick Perl.
> 
> Can I turn the question back at you?   Why would you use Java?  

Would would I?  Hmmm...  now you're going to make me think.  It is slow, and
that was always one of my excuses, but it is getting better, I have to
admit.  I also am having problems getting back into OO after years of RPG.
But, it's slowly coming.  And, it's fun.

But, a full scale application in Java?  Right now that scares me.  I've been
writing little ones and if you want to do OO correctly you end up with so
much "stuff" that you're right, debugging would be heck.  At least with ILE
we have signatures.  With Java you change an object (a big no no, but it
will happen) and who knows what will happen.

So, I guess I would use it only so I could work outside of the AS/400 world,
should I choose that route.  (But I doubt I will).

> 
> 
> Do you do programming on your Win9x PCs?   Have you ever made 
> a mistake
> and passed parms incorrectly to a Windows API?   Crash.   
> Have you ever
> accidentally overwritten memory on a Windows machine?  Crash.   

Oh, I thought were were talking about using the OS, not programming with
them.  <bg>.  I see your point.

> 
> I can't say I've had a problem like that on Linux.   I guess 
> I don't use
> Linux that much, since I prefer FreeBSD.  

It was versions of Redhat and Mandrake 7.1.  Man, what a bummer.  But, it
seems to be fixed now.  Been running for a couple weeks and the logs show no
sign of looping... yet..
> 
> Brad, lest there be hard feelings, let me say that I've read 
> some of your
> work over the years, and I have a lot of respect for you.  
> I've enjoyed
> many of your messages on these lists.   
> 
> Please don't take my disagreement on many of these points as a lack of
> respect for your opinion.

Hard feelings?  Never.  You'd have to do a lot more (like kidnap my wife).
I love it when people chat.  Sometimes the only reason I post what I do is
to get people talking.  I respect people more for speaking their mind
because when it all comes to it, it's really just opinion and no one is
right or wrong.  Unless it's about using the cycle in which it should always
be used for level breaks.  ;)

Brad
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