Re: RPG IV to solve national weather problems

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> 
> According to the national weather service, the IBM iSeries i5 with RPG IV
> and the new i5/OS Version 6 Release 0 will be used from now on to monitor
> the weather the impacts North America.
> "This is largely due to the advanced capabilities of that computer language
> over others we have attempted to use, such as Java. With the IBM RPG lV
> language, we can write a program to monitor the weather and it virtually
> never crashes. With Java and C which is what we had be using, it would crash
> frequently." Said Sidd Finch a WMS meteorologist with the U.S. Weather
> service.
> 
> The RPG IV Language has been in production for 10 years and is used in a
> half million companies world-wide. Apparently it is coming into vogue late
> in life but certainly will make future computer programming models at the
> NWS much more accurate.

Good one, Bob.  But hey, whaddaya mean "_Virtually_ never crashes"?

David Gibbs wrote: 
> Where the heck did I put my foil hat?

Oops, sorry.  Only borrowing it, honest.  In my defense, _nobody_ could
resist "borrowing" a midrange.com-logoware foil hat, could they?