RE: monitor for exception by message id

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:52 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: monitor for exception by message id

>That's because the AS/400 is better than the other platforms. The exception
>message model is a very advanced way of interacting between caller and
>callee. We've had it for over 30 years. Smalltalk has it, C++ stole it and
>Java cloned it.

I agree, just too bad the only native language on the as400 that fully
implements the exception model is CL.

The great one, Bjarne Stroustrup, describes and credits the origins of the
features of C++ in his tome "The C++ programming language". He writes:
"clearly C++ owes much to C. ... C in turn owes much to its predecessor
BCPL.  The other main source of inspiration was Simula67 ( classes, derived
classes, virtual functions ) ... The C++ facility for overloading operators
resembles Algol68 ... Templates were partly inspired by Ada's generics  (
sr: the generics word is coming back now in .NET ) ... Similarly the C++
exception handling mechanism was inspired partly by Ada(1979), Clu(1979) and
ML(1987)."


Steve