Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't deny that. My whole take is that use the tools you are comfortable
with. A Ruby on Rails person could probably say the same thing as I have.
For us, the web knowledge is ASP.NET, we won't be changing any time soon.
Most business apps are in RPG now and new stuff is being created often in
RPG.

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Mike Wills
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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> But that needs to be put into perspective.  Mike, you weren't writing
> RPG web apps those 10 years.  I will be the first to admit that
> Microsoft has some of thee best software to get up and running quickly
> with web stuff, but with only a few days of tinkering (even less these
> days vs. 10 years ago) it is quite easy to get up and running with RPG
> on the web.
>
> Aaron Bartell
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>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Well said.  It's still about how you architect the app whether in RPG or
> anything else.
> > Regards,
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> > message: 6
> > date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:52:35 -0500
> > from: Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i
> >
> > That would be a simple get data display data type thing. I would say the
> same thing though. I could write a simple ASP.NET app quicker than I could
> in RPG any day and I have 10 years of RPG under my belt and 4 years of a
> project here and there in ASP.NET.
> > I think I can say that because of Visual Studio and how MS has setup the
> ASP.NET tools. I can create a source file, drop a couple controls onto the
> page, pass in a table, and format the logic in quick fashion. This is the
> blessing (and curse) of ASP.NET. So on one hand you can do a real quick
> CRUD app in a very short period of time. However, a better designed app does
> take more time and more care than that.
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