Re: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

phil,

We have been using Dynamic Screen APIs and full database encapsulation in an 
application 
framework for about two years.  The code is not trivial, but I wouldn't go 
back.  At that 
level, you have to worry about a lot of things that most RPG programs don't 
worry about 
today.  Some of those things are memory management, caching, recursion, 
parameterized 
types, dynamic calls, debugger limitations, etc.  A C programmer is probably 
much more 
comfortable managing these things in their applications.

David Morris


...BTW: ILE/C certainly handles all of the AS/400 files types, some
better than others, perhaps a small project in converting the RPG into ILE/C
with ILE/C using the Dynamic Screen API's. This would end up giving a
closer representation of the work needed on other platforms for the
screen handling support

--phil


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