Re: Is RPG dying

The activation at run time is not supported is incorrect. You can activate
service program at runtime with API's See www.think400.dk/downloads.htm for
example code.

Definitely not event driven but that is GUI stuff. Why would you want ILE
RPG to be event driven? It is not a GUI language.


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:47 PM, D*B <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

just to clearify:

- RPG is not a modern language!
- RPG is not state of the art and it has never been!
- RPG is just an improtnat language for one platform, I like (the
platform) and maybe some others too
- even ILE RPG 7.1 has severe drawbacks!!!
just to name some of these:
- it has no sufficient support for namespaces
- it's not prepared for event driven programms, because it has nos support
for multi threading (yes, I know the keywords for the H-specs)
- the compiler does not support error handling
- static binding was an outdated concept, at the time it ws introduced to
ILE RPG
- it's complicated to have multiple connections with embedded SQL (yes, I
know, what an activation group is!)
- it's not supported to controll activation at runtime (yes, I know
ACTGRP(*NEW))
- there are very few components available (yes, I know, there are some -
I'm one of the guys publishing Open Source and Freeware!)
- there are no development tools which are competitive with Eclipse (yes,
I know WDSC or RDI, or how it might be named today, but where is
refactoring???)

D*B
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