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Brad Stone wrote:
...
If RPG is so wrong for the web, it should be easy to say
why. So far, I haven't heard anything of the like. Just
the normal tangents and ramblings and twisted quotes we
always have. <laugh>
Brad, there's a big difference between "it's possible" and "it's
preferable". Clearly, it's *possible* to do web programming in RPG
in the traditional CGI style, even though other tools provide
concrete advantages.
We've been around this debate a long time ago, but the last time I
looked at the subject, there were problems in educating RPG
programmers on CGI programming. As I pointed out before with my RPG
to Python rewrite example, I wasn't so much concerned over the size
of the Python code, but rather that the RPG program contained such
obvious bugs. I studied other examples and found the same bugs in
them too, which suggested the problem was widespread.
OK Brad, I admit it's been a while since I studied CGI-RPG
programming, so the situation must have improved since then. So now
please please please tell me that the current version of CGIDEV2
contains procedures that the RPG programmer can use to avoid those
particular bugs, and I'll be much happier about RPG programmers
doing CGI applications. (In case you don't remember, the issues are
the escaping of text included in an HTML document and the proper
encoding of special characters in query strings. Certainly not
rocket science, but can clearly cause problems if not done properly.)
Cheers! Hans
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