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

Personally I hope to start selling suites of service programs :-) I have to
earn a living somehow. And I continue to dream of Object Oriented extensions
to RPG, which would make my life in the business programming world ALOT
easier.

And another thing I will continue to hope and dream for is support in RPG
procedures of having a variable paramater list like C/C++'s  '...' parameter
type. Hey Hans why don't you steal ... oops "borrow" the code that the C/C++
folks use to handle that and slam it into RPG.

Thanks
Eroc

______________________________________________
Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software & Computer Services
2913 N Alder St
Tacoma WA 98407


----- Original Message -----
From: <boldt@ca.ibm.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: Re[6]: New Opcodes - %SETCELL


>
>
> Jon wrote:
> >I have to seriously disagree with you Norman - Hans did _not_ say that
they
> >didn't want to do development - he said that they were going to focus on
"...
> >new function that can't otherwise be done easily in the language today."
In my
> >opinion that is 100% correct - IBM _must_ concentrate in this area.
> >
> >If there is a major need for a specific function, someone will offer it
for
> >sale. IBM can never provide every function that anyone will ever need so
they
> >have to focus on those things that no one else can supply.  It is the
only
> thing
> >that makes sense.
>
> As usual, the mail feed into our Lotus Notes system is slow,
> so several people jumped to my defense even before I got
> Norman's note.
>
> I'd just like to comment on one of your points, Jon.  Sure,
> if there is a need for something, someone will offer it for
> sale, but look at CPAN.  Of that 600MB of Perl code, none of
> it was written for financial gain.  I look at CPAN, and
> wonder, why isn't there a CRAN chock full of 600MB of RPG
> code?  Am I just being too idealistic?
>
> Cheers!  Hans
>
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
>
>
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