Very fun/interesting to watch. I loved it when they started talking about
framework bloat. I wanted to reach out and tell them about RPG/DB2/i5OS :-)
Would love to get that guys opinion on what we have on the i5 - sounds like
he has been around the block.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:57 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: one of the godfathers of eclipse talks programming
an outstanding interview with the person who might be the VB architect
at MSFT and a brilliant fellow, Dave Thomas, who amoung many other
things is self described as "one of the godfathers of the eclipse
IDE":
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=349220
notice how Erik from MSFT comes close to conceding that the CLR, large
framework way of doing things which is C# and VB, is inferior to using
languages suited to the task at hand, running in what I think they
refer to as virtual machines.
"... a simple functional extension to something like SQL could easily
solve 80-90% of the applications people write..."
"... I find it hard to believe people would build business
applications in Java or C# ..."
"... normal people are never going to be programming multi cores ..."
midrange.com
