Re: HP Stimulus Package

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6-Feb-09, at 1:36 PM, Steve Richter wrote:
>
> Steve - you've written some odd stuff before but this one tops the list.
>
> > how is it a lie?  RPG has not been enhanced to include Java features
> > like managed code and classes ( so RPG code cant be modernized ).
>
> It is a lie because IBM have not said you _have_ to do any such thing.

IBM does not have a migration path for RPG-5250 applications. They
have a PHP rewrite path.

> It is a lie because you won't get _any_ of the things you talk about
> when you run this on HP. It's an emulator for goodness sake - not the
> second coming - it is not even new! And besides, what the heck has
> "managed code and classes" go to do with anything?

modern languages have to be able to work with code libraries. To do
that best you need a memory model that can new an object in one code
module and free it in another.  An IBM i shop should not have to
rewrite in PHP to moderninze.  You should be able to inject javascript
and HTML in their 5250 display output to render a data grid.  Or write
a code module in RPG which joins and unions an SQL result set, a
database table and a legacy mult occurance data struct.