RE: IFS files and VARPG

Making RPG look like C is akin to making Miss America look like Miss Piggy.
IMHO
Tom

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On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:14 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: IFS files and VARPG

I am not sure what you mean by a crappy implementation.  One line to 
define the file to be used seems fairly simple to me.

Of course, too, remember that the target audience for VARPG is RPG 
programmers, not UNIX gurus or c++ programmers.  So, making it like UNIX 
or c++ is not a goal for VARPG.  If someone wants to use UNIX or c++, by 
all means, do so.  No reason not to.  But please don't obfuscate how I 
make a living in the process.

You may like the idea that RPG is beginning to look like every other 
language, but many RPG programmers don't see the big advantage of 
mucking up what has worked well for a very long time.



Larry Ducie wrote:
> Hi Rob,
...
> IMHO, if we are going to get into the habit of using file descriptors then
> we need to use them "properly". By that I mean we need to follow the
already
> well-trodden Win32/unix/linux route. To implement it as some unholy F-spec
> b*stard-child was a big mistake. (again, IMHO). VARPG should have natively
> implemented support for open(), close(), etc.. without any F-spec
nonsence.
....
> I like the way RPG is becoming less like the estranged relative, and is
> coming into the fold. I like that I can read a nice bit of C code and
think
> "that would work really well, if not better, in RPG". I just couldn't do
> that if RPG constantly insisted on doing it's own thing.
>  
> Just my thoughts.
>  
> Larry Ducie