RE: No syntax checking in free-form RPG

["Mike Haston ** Data" <MHaston@xxxxxxx>]

Point taken.  This was just a hideous introduction to Java at a very well known 
university with a supposed Java guru that didn't take one second to help out 
the non-OO programmers.  

Two PCs, the same paths, the same program, one compile, the other didn't and 
the instructor ended up after an hour saying "I don't know" and moving on.  It 
was just a question of who's version of "progressive" are we going by!




-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Cochran [mailto:jrc@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:20 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: No syntax checking in free-form RPG


>That's how me and a fellow RPG programmer felt about a Java course we
>took.  Working in DOS, setting paths, what do you mean the same program
>compiles for the guy next to me and not for me?  We weren't sure where
>the progress was exactly, but they tell us it was there!

How is this different from using a command line and setting the library
list?  If your library list was different than mine couldn't we expect
to experience the same problem?  Just like you can set the library list
in a user profile or a JOBD you can permanently set the PATH (or
CLASSPATH) on a machine for Java.  

My only point is that for any language and platform you have to
understand the basics and this would be a poor justification for
dismissing Java.  I'm not preaching Java over RPG (or vice versa), just
trying to help.

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com


On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 08:58, Mike Haston ** Data wrote:
> >>I'm not sure I define that as progress.  It's just change, and change for
> >>change's sake is not necessarily better.  One man's view.
> 
> That's how me and a fellow RPG programmer felt about a Java course we took.  
> Working in DOS, setting paths, what do you mean the same program compiles for 
> the guy next to me and not for me?  We weren't sure where the progress was 
> exactly, but they tell us it was there!
> 
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