RE: .NET approach -- MI400

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Larry Loen wrote:

> The main thing missing from our object strategy was inheritance.  This
> obscures some of the object properties we do have.  When you have an API or
> even a command that says "DLTPGM", you really have a member function, just
> spelled awkwardly and with no inheritance.  DLTPGM does not work on a file
> by mistake, for example.  If you had it in API form and passed it a system
> pointer to a file object, it would say "wrong type".  That's as enforceable
> as any C++ or Java member function.  Maybe more so.
> 

In OS/400 the CPP of most DLT* commands are identical, and if not restricted by
security level, one can easily create a DLTOBJ command (which would sometimes
be very handy).


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