RE: RPG, 10 years from now

>sorry, Aaron, I dont mean to misrepresent you. 
Apology accepted :-)

>To talk to the blackberry or a web service you need to be able to drop some
modular code into your RPG program without affecting other parts of the
program.  For that you need namespaces and classes that can inherit from
base classes, virtual methods, interfaces, etc.

I am going to slightly alter your statement because you said you NEED this
and that. You don't NEED those features to talk to a blackberry.  Having a
stubbed out program with OO features is nice, but it definitely is not
needed.  All that is needed is a CGI capable language (which RPG is). You
can have that RPG program sitting out on the web listening for requests.
When it gets a request it can parse the incoming data (html, xml, wml, etc),
make calls to appropriate RPG business logic modules and then compose an
appropriate response.  

With that said I know where you are going.  Yes it is nice to take a WSDL
coupled with an XSD and auto-magically produce a communicative piece of code
that talks to a program on the other side of the nation, but in the end it
is all text going over the wire (albeit complicated text :-).

Aaron Bartell

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Subject: RE: RPG, 10 years from now


>>Aaron, why does a programming language have to be concerned with the 
>>devices attached to the computer?  That is what APIs are for.

>Man Steve, I feel like you are taking my statements and running with 
>them (and you are running with them in the wrong direction). I didn't 
>say that the RPG program would have to know it is talking with a 
>blackberry, I said it would give us the ability to talk to a 
>blackberry. Note that this can be done easily right now with RPG and 
>CGI, but it would be great to make it even easier with some technology
specific support built into the compiler.

sorry, Aaron, I dont mean to misrepresent you. To talk to the blackberry or
a web service you need to be able to drop some modular code into your RPG
program without affecting other parts of the program.  For that you need
namespaces and classes that can inherit from base classes, virtual methods,
interfaces, etc.  All basic language stuff. 

I understand people dont want this in RPG ( actually I dont understand it.
if you dont have to use the feature why would someone object to the language
having it? )  That is why the .NET approach is so good. A .NET language has
to be CLI compliant. other than that it can emphasize whatever language
style people prefer.  An RPG.NET for example could have F specs,
compatibility with rpg400 and built in functions.

-Steve


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