RE: Using OO concepts in RPG

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>(I am not campaigning for those two things only, but for the whole family of
>what is needed for pretty printing.  It may not be RPG, but I've never seen
>externally described printer files ever used with anything but RPG.)

And here is the kernal of the issue with this direction of the thread... this 
simply isn't an RPG issue (and I mean ILE RPG since I started with real RPG 
even before RPG II). Like it or not, there ARE other languages and printer 
files CAN be externally described. For IBM to invest in improving this area for 
a single compiler when alternatives exist is a waste of my investment in the 
platform. I do not want improved printing 'in RPG'; I simply want improved 
print capabilities regardless of the language that refers to the printer file.

It's probably been ten years since I've defined a report 'in RPG'. Or in COBOL 
or 'in' any other language other than DDS or QM.

Tom Liotta

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