RE: Death of the RPG Programmer

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

Careful there, Leif.  I'm halfway between laughing and crying.  You used no
emoticons.  IBM couldn't do anything that stupid, could they?

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [SMTP:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:16 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Death of the RPG Programmer
> 
> From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
> 
> > what you don't hear them talk about is how well Java performs compared
> to 
> > RPG.  RPG, for traditional processing, knocks the socks off Java, but
> IBM 
> > is scared to say so.
> > 
> 
> There is a rumor going around that IBM has (will?) slow down RPG
> with a suitable governor to make Java look better....
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