RE: rpg conversion tools to java

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ken,

>       Someone wote on a prior thread on this subject, what a 
> nightmare debugging the Java might be.

I've seen some nasty debugging sessions of RPG it's not immune to being a 
nightmare to debug either.

>       In one sense, if you're cracker jack with Java, then it 
> might not be too bad.

Like you say (or someone did) elsewhere, it's down to a comfort level within 
the company of a particular language. In this case, the original poster was 
asked by a customer, and that customer I'm assuming - possibly incorrectly - 
feels more comfortable with Java then RPG, hence the request for conversion 
tools.

>       My latest statistics, (no I don't have a copy handy), 
> say that there are still more 
> RPG coders out there than Java coders.This too might change.

Within the iSeries arena, I'd probably agree Java Developers < RPG Developers. 
Taking that to the software development world as a whole (PC's, *nix, etc.), 
I'd find that very hard to believe.

--phil