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LOL! -----Original Message----- From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:28 PM To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries' Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Web Services Solutions
From: richard@xxxxxxxxxxx I thought you were teaching a Java class. Isn't that a new language or did I get your topic wrong ? :-)
Well, I do teach the language that VB aspires to be. I remove the middle man. (I find it amusing that the only way you can get platform independent in the Microsoft world is by using the virtual machine that Microsoft stopped supporting.) But my jumpstart session is on WDSC for RPG programmers. You know, that OTHER language that Microsoft doesn't support.
My .Net examples will include RPG just as yours probably do. If you're only teaching WDSC RPG editing, I guess I will be broadening horizons while you're teaching Window dressing for editing RPG.
If using BASIC is broadening horizons, then maybe you want to show them how to drive a horse and buggy, too! And not only that, but you have to use a third-party product to convert the BASIC source into the bytecode of the language Microsoft tried to kill in order to be able to use it on the iSeries. ("Take this here horse, and hook up a bag to its butt. The horse will generate methane, which you can then use to drive this horseless carriage.") You and Rube Goldberg, baby! As to "window dressing" for editing RPG, you say that as if editing RPG is a bad thing. Heck, you must be drinking that MS kool-aid! You're beginning to sound like all the other people who insist that RPG is dead and to dump it in favor of something else. Meanwhile, I can't think of anything more important to the iSeries community than making RPG programmers more productive. Sorry, buddy, but BASIC isn't my idea of the future...
Nothing beats SEU for RPG <wink>.
Well I can see why you would like the green screen, since there is no way to debug RPG code in Visual Studio. There's productivity for you... Maybe someday someone will write a tool that converts one of Microsoft's many syntaxes into w-code. Then you can run natively on the iSeries, and write your code using EDTF! Thanks, Richard, but I'll stick with RPG, and use Java or EGL as my interface. And I'll debug the entire application without leaving my IDE. And in the meantime, the Microsoft advocates can write code in BASIC that is converted to Java bytecode, and debug their RPG code in the green screen, at least until they dump the iSeries and outsource the whole project to some offshore .NET/SQL Server firm. Joe -- This is the Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries (WDSCI-L) mailing list To post a message email: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/wdsci-l or email: WDSCI-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l.
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