RE: DDS Support

(MAJOR SNIP)

Richard,

you bring up one of my pet peeves over the years.  WHY hasn't IBM just
enhanced current languages to provide the functionality that we now
have a PLETHORA of spurious languages?  

As we've seen most recently with RPG, the languange definitions and
functions can easily be enhanced and then it becomes a COMPILER issue to
make the object work and work efficiently.  

I'll go one futher:  Why can't users write their own opcodes?  We saw the
concept back in RPG 2.5 where macros in effect were copied in at precomile
time...but, why can't I create a op code, put it in some set lib area and
have it as a valid one that the compiler will just understand and roll
with?  From what I've spoken with some of the folks on the MI400 list off
line, creating a compiler for this box isn't that much of a chore and
heck, why not just make the compiler available to those that want to
customize their own compiler...yeah, I know it tends to throw standards in
the crapper...maybe..:)

AND, then there's my MAJOR pet PEEVER with RPG...when the heck are we
going to get multidimensional arrays!?  Prefereably ones that org:1 not
org:0 like C, Java, etc....or better yet to appeas the unix/C weenies,
allow a compile time option to allow the programmer to decide if they
org:0 or org:1 (would be a NICE feature for Java and C as well!!!! HINT :)

OK, I'll go back to my cage...:)

Don in DC

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