Re: RPG400-L Digest, Vol 10, Issue 77

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been agreeing with so many of your posts lately Joe but it was too good to last ...

I don't personally know of anyone who has blankly made the kind of statement that you attribute to those of us who find PHP a good transition language for an RPG programmer. I don't know anyone who simplistically states that PHP is easier to learn than Java. 

The syntax is very similar because both "stole" their basic syntax from C.

I have and do say that PHP can be easier for many RPG programmers to learn because you can code without having to get totally into OO. I know personally many programmers (myself included) who tried to learn Java but were never able to get comfortable with it. Many of those have subsequently tried pHP and been successful. 

Java is a great language and works well for many people. So does PHP. End of story.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:00 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Which makes my point: one is not easier to learn than another.  It's one 
> of the big arguments in the IBM i community: PHP is so much easier to 
> learn than Java.  I disagree.  Except for the typing, the languages are 
> almost identical, it's just that Java was written that way from the 
> ground up, and obviously very well since PHP copied the syntax.  
> Sincerest form of flattery and all that.  :)