RE: framework question

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just curious Franco, what do you use RPG for currently?  Are you using the
latest features?  I think it is hardly REPORT PROGRAM GENERATOR anymore.
That is one of its features, but hardly it's mainstay.  I guess I base that
off of I haven't written a report with RPG in the past year to year and a
half.

Aaron Bartell

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Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:19 PM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: framework question

Joe,

I have more than 30 year experience on midrange programming (RPG), and more
than 10 years in OOP.

do not forget that RPG is a REPORT GENERATOR PROGRAM, not a language.
OO is another world that cannot be compared...

Simply OO programming thake 10% of the time compared to RPG, very easy on
maintenance etc.

Sorry for my bad english.

Joe Pluta wrote:

>>this is a quite questionable statement. I dont want to miss 
>>specialisation of real world objects by the use of inheritance.
>>I can easily demonstrate 100 places where this makes sense, its starts 
>>in the range of persistence...
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>Please demonstrate a few.  And persistence is not an application 
>requirement, it's an architectural issue.  Name places in business 
>applications where inheritance works better than composition.
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>>But there are many oppinions about that. Think of one fact, no modern 
>>language comes without inheritance.
>>The last 5-6 languages created the last years in fact are all
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>>OO based. (Python, C#, Ruby, Java,...)
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>None of those languages is any good for business logic, though.
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>Also, your statement depends on what you consider a language.  ILE RPG 
>is all but a completely new language, and it does not have inheritance.
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>And in any case, the point is not whether inheritance is good or bad, 
>but whether it is appropriate for business programming.  My position is 
>that it is not, and that except for the most trivial applications I can 
>write business logic much more quickly and flexibly in RPG than any 
>other language.
>
>Joe
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