Re: V6R1 Info

On Jan 30, 2008 2:22 PM, Aaron Bartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think the language should be less like RPG and more in tune with Java.

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RPG

threading and elimination of the RPG cycle is great news. Would like to

know

if RPG programs can now be called recursively. )

RPG has had recursion for more years than I have been with the platform.
Guessing it came in V3R1 when ILE came.

I just checked. I think you are right ;)

Java has good and bad parts.

what are the bad parts? My answer would be that you cant use it to write a
green screen program. If it could, shops would have a migration path away
from RPG.

Hopefully RPG will only ever take on the good
parts. Multi-thread safe holds some nice possibilities for scaling
client/server programming. Maybe we should build and starting coining the
term "RPG App Server" :-)

check out this video for a tiny sliver of what MSFT is doing on the language
front. It is about extensions being added to .NET languages which allow each
iteration of a for each loop to be run in parallel, on as many threads as
the hardware can run simultaneously. I love the idea of IBM competing and
improving RPG. They have to spend the investment money which matches the
competition.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=375042

-Steve