RE: Re[6]: New Opcodes - %SETCELL

One of the things that has puzzled me since the introduction of ILE is the
lack of procedure libraries and/or service programs for sale.  This is
something common in other languages that have that kind of extensibility.
Seems to me that the old text based novell utility and administration
programs used a product called "C Worthy" for the eccentric novell user
interface where the use of ESC and ENTER confounded intuition. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman.Rae@mckhboc.com [mailto:Norman.Rae@mckhboc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 8:46 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re[6]: New Opcodes - %SETCELL
> 
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> 
> 
> 
>      So let me see if I've got this straight:
> 
>      <<SNIP>>
> 
> To get back on topic, if you want better API's for IFS, write your
> own procedures and share them with others so they can benefit too.
> Quite simply, now that we have procedures in the language, any
> request for new function in RPG we see that could easily be
> implemented by some code in a procedure is not taken very seriously
> here.  We look for new function that can't otherwise be done easily
> in the language today.
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
>      <<SNIP>>
> 
>      In other words, we don't want to do any development 
> anymore.  DO IT
>      YOURSELF!!!
> 
>      I don't know about other companies, but here they are 
> not interested
>      in advancing the AS/400 world, or RPG.  They want me to 
> concentrate on
>      the business needs, anything else I may do keeps me from 
> that task and
>      I am actively discouraged from this.  I know its 
> shortsighted, but
>      that's the way it is!
> 
>      Norman
> 
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