RE: Bob's letter on V5R4 RPG stuff

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Billions and billions of programmers...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Bob's letter on V5R4 RPG stuff
> From: "Richter,Steve" <Steve.Richter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, February 02, 2006 11:45 am
> To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Bartell [mailto:albartell@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: Bob's letter on V5R4 RPG stuff
> 
> 
> >>>What happens when XML goes away for the next flavor?  I'd rather have
> >>generic tools than specific tools which can be built externally from RPG
> >>using RPG and those generic tools.
> 
> >I am sure there will be a next technology to take XML's place someday, but
> >the good thing is that XML is being deeply ingrained into the big players
> >which *should* guarantee a certain amount of shelf life.
> 
> my take on this is that Java and .NET already have framework classes that 
> probably millions of programmers are using for creating and consuming xml 
> documents. Since RPG is intended as a language to run on hardware that has 
> been geared down to 25% of its capacity, the language cant have the object 
> oriented features of C# and Java. The end result is RPG programmers dont work 
> with XML using the established class frameworks that the majority of 
> programmers use today. It is great that the language has been improved. 
> Programmers should be aware that their RPG skills dont transfer to other 
> languages.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
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