From: Steve Richter
What decision would that have been and why was it made?
Well, Stuart Milligan, vice president of business development, Databorough implied that IBM decided not make RPG a fully OO language like Java and C#.
So what's the point? Databorough develops tools to convert RPG to Java. So his rant against RPG may be a thinly veiled attempt to get developers to use his tools.
Personally, I'm grateful that RPG is a procedurally oriented language, doesn't carry the overhead of a fully OO language, and hasn't evolved into bloatware like Java and MS .net runtime environments.
On the other hand, I'm also very grateful that ILE supports encapsulation, which is the first and most important attribute of OO design. IBM has found the right middle ground.
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