RE: New Opcodes - %SETCELL

I think it will progress very slowly until it reaches a critical mass at
which point, hopefully, it will suddenly explode. Before that happens there
has to be substantial growth both in the ready availability of routines and
the number of sites actually using service programs. There should eventually
come a point when the average programmer will think of hunting round for a
ready made routine before thinking of coding it him/herself. That's the
take-off point.

Dave Kahn
Johnson & Johnson International (Ethicon) France
Phone : +33 1 55 00 3180
Email :  dkahn1@jnjfr.jnj.com (work)
           dkahn@cix.co.uk      (home)


-----Message d'origine-----
De: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
Date: 09 September 1999 15:45
À: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Objet: Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL


Well, why isn't it going to happen for us?  I know why it hasn't happened in
the
PAST,
because RPG was not set up for effective code reusable.  Subroutines were
about it,
for
quite a while.

Well, now with RPGLE we have the ability to build external libraries to our
source
code,
which is what all the other languages profit from.  I think that since the
ability
now exists
in RPG to effectively share and reuse code that it should, and will, start
to
happen.

We just didn't before because it was ineffective.
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