Re: Is RPG 'DEAD"

[Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

hey Steve ever hear of this great "new" command RCLACTGRP??? works the 
same as a garbage collector...once again...how can you say it doesn't 
exist?

also activation groups are NOT a memory leak.  i've never seen (or even 
heard of for that matter) of an activation group bringing down a 
system...how about M$ crap?  it's killed so many PC and hard errors than 
any other stuff on the planet...

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
"RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
06/18/2008 11:05 AM
Subject:
Re: Is RPG 'DEAD"



On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Haas, Matt (CL Tech Sv)
<matt.haas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I understand you like the MS Kool-Aid a lot but I don't understand the 
memory leaks
> comment. Are you saying RPG is inferior to other languages in that 
regard because you
> have to go out of your way to make them happen?

I think activation groups hide what are in fact memory leaks (
allocated memory which is not freed ).  But then a lot of RPG code
does not use %alloc and pointers.   The managed code feature of C#
makes the .NET framework and collection classes possible.   The suite
of collection classes you see in Java and C# are not available in RPG.
 that is because of the lack of a garbage collector.