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On Mon, 12 May 2003 13:26:18 -0400 Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Summary: RPG is probably not the BEST web language > available to us; Java is > probably better. That doesn't mean RPG is useless for > the web, it just > means RPG folks will spend more time/money doing the same > tasks than the > Java folks spend. And that is a business decision, not a > slam on choice of > language. > Buck, I tend to disagree. You're comparing writing socket apps in RPG to C, and then applying the difficulty factor (assuming the programmer in question is comfortable with both languages) to web programming. It's simply not the case. web apps are really nothing more than another way for us to input and output data. RPGers have been doing it for years on green screens and green bar reports. The web is no different. Java on the other hand has been touted first as a do it all language, then as an engine for the presentation layer, while letting RPG do the business work and DB access. Using more than one language can complicate things. Outputting HTML or XML or *ml is not rocket science. Neither is putting it into that format. It's the business logic and db access that is the main part of any project. And even Java proponents agree that RPG is for that. So, the question still remains... why is RPG so bad for outputting HTML? There are no sockets or TCPIP communications involved in this. It's actually easier than building a subfile on a green screen. And it's doing the same thing. Brad www.bvstools.com
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