Re: The New Power Equation: Power = i + p -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: The New Power Equation: Power = i + p
From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:07:31 -0400
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On 4/3/08, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

- Steve, you can already code in Java and C in i. Why do you want to drop

RPG? You have a problem with freedom of choice?

languages like C# and Java, which provide managed code and class
frameworks are far superior to languages of the 90s like RPG and C. IBM
should stop wasting resources by investing in RPG improvements. ( unless
they are going to morph it, like MSFT did with VB and give it Java like
features. )

The problem with Java on IBM i is it does not interop well with the non java
parts of the system. The great features Java has to offer, garbage
collection, objects access by reference, classes, exception handling - would
work great in other areas like system APIs, control language, SQL.

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