Re: Mi vs C (was calling RPG ILE with parameter list from MI)

[Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11-Dec-07, at 1:00 PM, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

> There are a large number of OPM MI instructions that are not available
> as ILE built-ins. As to performance, it depends on the algorithms used
> and how they are coded. In many cases, OPM MI can perform very well.

I didn't think there were many that mattered these days Mark but I  
bow to your superior knowledge on the subject.

> > C code has to be a lot more maintainable than MI and there are many
> more tools to work with it.
>
> It is certainly possible to write very obtuse code in C, almost as
> cryptic and unreadable as some examples I have seen in APL.

I think this misses the point - it is possible to write obscure code  
in any language - it is simply that some (APL being a good example of  
a write-only language) do a "better" job than others.

The point I was trying to make was that there are a lot more tools  
out there to work with C code and by using C rather than MI you can  
use the (relatively) easy approach to file handling etc. provided by  
C rather than having to code it al the hard way in MI.  You can also  
bind the resulting code into an RPG program for that matter.

Jon Paris

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