Re: Time to get serious

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Rich wrote:
> Remember, you said anything you can do in any language, you can do in 
> RPG. Well, how about OOP?  RPG isn't an OO language.  How about a DVD 
> player? What about typedef (user defined data types)?  Multi-dimensional 
> arrays? Cross platform portability?

OOP is a programming technique ... not a function that you can perform 
with a program.  Same for typedef & multi-dimensional arrays.  Those are 
just constructs that you use to write your program with.

IIRC, doesn't the VA/RPG compiler generate byte code?  That would make 
RPG cross platform.

Being a DVD player is the only thing that you described that is actually 
a function a program can perform.  And on that front, I suspect a RPG 
program could be written that would send the necessary signals to 
hardware to play a DVD.  That's not saying *I* could write that program.

david


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