Re: RPG suggestions

Right - simplicity is a good point. But you could of cause also write a
complex-to-write-but-simple-to-use program, and then forget all about the
offsets and binary variables in it (that's what I call a BlackBox
Program). It can be reused over and over without understanding the
details.

Why?

For two reasons (that may or may not apply depending of the case):

1. Functionality
2. Performence

1. Functionality
Many functions are simply not accessably with commands

2. Performence
Repeatingly doing the sequence applicationRPG-blackboxRPG-API involves
much less 'resolve pointer'-work than the
applicationRPG-blackboxCLP-commandCPP

Henrik


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> Fra: Colin Williams <Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk>
> Til: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Emne: RE: RPG suggestions
> Dato: 13. maj 1999 10:04
> 
> I dont want to use API for every function, only where its necessary. I
> tend to only use API's where I believe there is a benefit. The
advantage
> of these CL program commands is that they are very,very,very simple to
> use.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. [mailto:rbruceh@ibm.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 4:51 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: RPG suggestions
> 
> 
> Colin Williams wrote:
> > 
> > Any possibility of getting CL Program Commands like RTVJOBA to run
> > directly from RPG or via QCMDEXC. Now that would be great!
> 
> Forget QCMDEXC, it's available.  They call them API's.  ;-)
> 
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