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All fine and good, but RPG is a hell of a language WITHOUT all the new stuff, Michael. The concept of navigational database access within a procedural language is absolutely crucial to learning proper programming and database design, and you don't need procedures and BIFs and /free for that. Not that I dislike the new features; I think they make the language easier to use and, what the hell, they may even attract those programmers who don't know that the data type "Boolean" comes from Boolean logic. But RPG is a great language, has been for decades, and continues to grow and evolve in ways that few other languages can match. Joe > From: Michael Ryan > > I agree. The majority of programmers either don't know about RPG or have a > preconceived notion based on long ago experience. And who should be blame > for this? Well...look around at the RPG programmers you know. How many are > comfortable using built-in functions? Procedures? ILE? Free form? Mixed > case statements for crying out loud?
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