Re: java to RPG problem

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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:06:36 AST
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Subject: Re: java to RPG problem

> I think it is only _because_ it is so similar to C that it was picked up
so
> quickly. If it had been based on PL/I it would have had the level of
>
acceptance of PL/I .......

PL/I was slow to be accepted because so few
machines of the early 1980s had the
processing power to run the compiler
(essentially the same reason why the
original mainframe ZORK was split into
three separate microcomputer games). As
wasteful of processing power as most
modern bloatware is, that's no longer an
issue . . .

A language based on
PL/I syntax would do rather well, especially if only the
PL/I jocks
recognized it as such. After all, there was an awful lot of PL/I in
the
various QBASICs of the 1990s. PL/I has the advantage that its syntax is so

straightforward as to be intuitive to anybody familiar with practically ANY

other language.

If somebody were to be elected absolute ruler of
cyberspace, and were to decree
that all software must be written in C and
C-derivatives, or worse, in RPG, I'd
go to work as a plumber, like my
dad.

Now, don't get me wrong: RPG has a useful feature: where most
languages have to
walk through files, RPG can ride around on its logic
cycle.

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J.Lampert