Re: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)

: phil,
:
: We have been using Dynamic Screen APIs and full database
encapsulation in an application
: framework for about two years.  The code is not trivial, but I
wouldn't go back.  At that
: level, you have to worry about a lot of things that most RPG
programs don't worry about
: today.  Some of those things are memory management, caching,
recursion, parameterized
: types, dynamic calls, debugger limitations, etc.  A C programmer is
probably much more
: comfortable managing these things in their applications.

Yes, I'm a ILE/C (ex RPG) programmer, and I use DSM & database
encapsulation in my code too. You're right too, that once you're doing
it, going back is a step in the wrong direction.

Some of the more fun things I've done with the DSM is to use them in
porting the Unix games 'rouge' and 'advent' among other things

If we were to use the DSM API's in a OpenSource project in itself
would be of benefit, there is hardly any examples of using them for
other programmers to look at

--phil

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