RE: RPG - I'm not dead yet!

[john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm switching over to gmail.

> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:29:25 -0500
> From: joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: RPG - I'm not dead yet!
>
> I'm not sure how much time I should spend debating with someone who 
> comes onto a list about RPG programming on IBM i and proceeds to bash 
> the platform and say that RPG isn't even a language.  Clearly you don't 
> like the topic of this list, so what do you hope to achieve with your 
> posts?  More to the point, though, is that I don't understand your 
> comments.  Like this one:
>
> > Java isn't well integrated (not at all actually).
>
> What is this supposed to mean?  On what other platform is Java better 
> "integrated" and why?  Certainly not Microsoft.  Heck, prior to RPG I 
> didn't even know another language that could directly call Java.  I mean 
> you can usually use JNI, but only RPG has direct support for prototyping 
> functions and methods and invoking them.  But in any case, saying Java 
> isn't well integrated on the IBM i is pretty much the opposite of 
> reality as far as I can tell.
>
> Please, let's start with this one simple statement and then maybe we can 
> move on to some of the others.
>
> Joe
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