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At 07:08 AM 9/2/2004, you wrote:
-snip-
- this would mean re-educate 35 people for RPG/IV (I would then
personally chose C )
Bas, I work for a 3rd-party software developer, where C is our primary
development language. But we write utilities that have almost no
interactive functionality. What we use, mostly, is commands and menus. Now
I come from a business application background, so have done a lot of RPG.
But I just wrote the first RPG anything module in the history of this
company 2 months ago.
I have used C to write to PRTFs and do native I/O. You may have had
different experience, but I find it much more difficult to do native I/O
and device I/O in C compared to RPG, which is so easy. On the other hand, C
has all the I/O options available, some that RPG does not.
Also, pretty much all the C functions are usable in ILE RPG, as well as
system APIs. Again, some APIs, especially with variable length data, are
somewhat easier to handle in C.
So use the best language for the task at hand. You are obviously in a bind
at your shop. But let me heartily recommend that you not go to C for
everything - stick with RPG for non-SQL disk and device I/O.
JMHO
Vern
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