I don't care for programming in Java myself, although I do from time to time. And I agree that Java is difficult to be productive in if you're not doing it every day just because there's about 6 ways to do everything.
I would argue though that productivity is only partially about the language: the equal to larger issue is whether your development tools support your programmers' productivity. If you're developing in ISPF on a 24x80 screen instead of a rich IDE, you're likely going to have a hard time being as productive as somebody who's using a more modern tool. Also, languages that have a version that will run in the JVM will almost certainly run on z/OS. Groovy for example. JavaScript most definitely runs on z/OS inside the JVM. Scott >z/OS is starved of decent tools. Almost every programming language has >it's roots in the 60s, 70s or 80s. It's time for a change. And I >don't mean Java, which isn't really a step up in terms of productivity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
