Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

But that needs to be put into perspective.  Mike, you weren't writing
RPG web apps those 10 years.  I will be the first to admit that
Microsoft has some of thee best software to get up and running quickly
with web stuff, but with only a few days of tinkering (even less these
days vs. 10 years ago) it is quite easy to get up and running with RPG
on the web.

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



On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well said.  It's still about how you architect the app whether in RPG or anything else.
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> date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:52:35 -0500
> from: Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i
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> That would be a simple get data display data type thing. I would say the same thing though. I could write a simple ASP.NET app quicker than I could in RPG any day and I have 10 years of RPG under my belt and 4 years of a project here and there in ASP.NET.
>
> I think I can say that because of Visual Studio and how MS has setup the ASP.NET tools. I can create a source file, drop a couple controls onto the page, pass in a table, and format the logic in quick fashion. This is the blessing (and curse) of ASP.NET. So on one hand you can do a real quick CRUD app in a very short period of time. However, a better designed app does take more time and more care than that.
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