Re: EGL, Java and PHP -- WEB400

I agree. I would guess that a good number of the RPG programmers (like
myself) butter the bread with RPG. Learning PHP has been done at done on the
side, reading while waiting for my daughter when she is ice skating, and
when there are slower times at work. To try to add multiple languages would
cause my head to spin. I wish I had a photographic memory (or a memory at
all for that matter) to learn all the new syntax. But I only get it through
repetition, and applying what I learned to a working examples. I wish I
could read a book and put it down and just start coding. It is enough that I
have to learn HTML and Java Script to make PHP work.

If I ever show up in your office for a job interview (I hope that never
happens, I want retire when I am 90 or so from INFOCON) you now know
information about me that most interviewers would love to know.

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:31 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] EGL, Java and PHP

My comment is purely opinion based, but whenever you combine two significant
languages that the programmer has to touch, you increase the burden by a
lot. They now have to keep up to date with both PHP and Java, and all the
different frameworks/codesets/tools/conferences/test
mechanisms/deployment/etc that go with those. I would much rather have a
single language and not have every cool tool immediately, than have many
different languages.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

If IBM is going to support EGL, Java, and PHP on IBM i for the
foreseeable future, why not explore how these can be combined to get
the best of each technology?

I've been quite interested in the combination of Java and PHP. The
idea is to get the best of both worlds. PHP and Java can already be
combined using a PHP-Java bridge, which requires a Java runtime in
addition to a PHP runtime. Or they can be combined using something
like Quercus, which translates PHP into Java and runs solely in a Java
runtime. I've installed both on my personal computer but have not had
a chance to play with them yet. I think it would be great to have a
set of tools that would let me easily mix EGL, Java and PHP to get the
strengths of each.

Kelly

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