Re: Source in IFS

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/05/2010, at 7:37 AM, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

> A far bigger issue is, if you place your source in the IFS and use any
> of the CRTxxx commands that support it, you lose one of the most
> important features of OS/400 or i5/OS, that is, the automatic  
> "stamping"
> of the created object with the source file name, library name, member
> name, and date-time stamp of the source member.

That stuff's obviously not important because it's not present on any  
other platform. If **THEY** can do without it then so can we. Why  
should we have all this extra guff (as one PC dweeb said to me) stored  
with an object? It just clutter's up the system and provides no value  
whatsoever. Since few people purchase our beloved system just because  
it is better than the others why spend development dollars making and  
maintaining such differences when that money could be spent making our  
system look just like **THEIR** systems. While we're at it why not get  
rid of all the object/module/service program junk in a program object.  
Who bothers to look at that stuff? Oh, there's so much that could be  
cleaned up. Just store everything as stream files. Get rid of command  
objects--what value does prompting and help text add to them? Doing  
something like this would remove the need to argue why our system is  
better, there'd be no need for additional education--it would be just  
like everything else--and then the merge of i and p can be complete.




**To those reading this out of context, perhaps years after it was  
written, it should be obvious that it is sarcasm (regardless of what  
Oscar Wilde says). so don't take it literally.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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