Re: What are you doing with .NET and integrating into IBM i?

Awesome, we can get rid of that program maybe. I guess some better examples would have been in order:

1. database interoperability. Without unsupported addons such as ARDGATE how to read/write from external databases?
2. Interact with web services with one line of code? Webserver.AddTwoNumbers(x,y)?
3. Indicator hell, we have some programs that use all 99 indicators. Code spaghetti! Obviously this is just a bad coding issue.
4. Built in code metrics (cyclomatic complexity, etc)
5. Unit testing! We have a wealth of unit testing frameworks, where are the dozens for RPG?

Etc...


-----Original Message-----
From: whatt sson [mailto:whattssonn@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:39 AM
To: .net use with the System i
Subject: Re: [SystemiDotNet] What are you doing with .NET and integrating into IBM i?

I remember a discussion about leap years, we have this really old RPG

program

that had to calculate leap year logic, and I showed them the one line
of

code in

.NET to do the same thing.

I can do that also in one line with RPG :

if IsLeapYear(y) . . .

or even translate a gregorian date to a week date like this:

wdt = Gdt2Wdt(date);


in ONE line !!



On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Matt Olson <Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

We are doing a lot things with .NET nowadays. You look at the program
difference in reduction of lines of code, testability, readability
between a .NET program and an RPG program that does the same thing and
it makes the RPG guys cry.

So with that being said, we generally don't talk about it anymore,
RPGers get upset. I remember a discussion about leap years, we have
this really old RPG program that had to calculate leap year logic, and
I showed them the one line of code in .NET to do the same thing.
There are so many examples like this it isn't even fair to compare
.NET to RPG, hands down .NET will win every time.

That's just the nature of technology. Things progress.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wills [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:41 PM
To: .net use with the System i
Subject: Re: [SystemiDotNet] What are you doing with .NET and
integrating into IBM i?

I was trying to pull out issues people are having. Maybe it's so
perfect that there are no problems. ;-)

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Maurice O'Prey
<Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Well Mike

That was certainly a pot boiler! Haven't read such a debate in a
very, very, long, long, time :-)

Why don't we just mention .NET over in ("the other list"). Always
attracts attention... IMHO

- Maurice O'Prey


-----Original Message-----
From: systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: 18 December 2012 16:25
To: systemidotnet@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SystemiDotNet] What are you doing with .NET and
integrating into IBM i?

Since this list isn't very busy lets get a conversation going! What
are you using .NET for?

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