Re: Compiler directive

Exactly...these are on all other platforms except iSeries. I still remember
the C Smorgasbord utilities, and that's 20+ years ago.

I haven't worked with many packages, but I understand that a lot of
programmers would like to use modern techniques, but they can't because the
package software is so out of the mainstream that they can't.

I'm planning on working about 10 more years, and I'll bet the iSeries
industry will look just about the same.

On 8/9/06, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Michael Ryan wrote:
>
> How many third party vendors have produced anything like a QSYSINC
library,
> much less service programs containing cool procedures that we could use?
>

On which platform?  On Unix and Linux platforms software always comes with
include files for C, and often comes with Perl and Python wrappers as
well.  On Windows platforms, C and C++ includes are pretty standard, often
a VB module containing the VB definitions is also there. Or, instead of
letting you call their DLL directly, they'll provide an OCX control
instead.

For Java and .NET platforms, these types of includes aren't necessary.

It's really pretty standard everywhere except for the System i platform,
where modular re-usable APIs and components are a rarity because software
companies are still working on the discovery of fire.
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