RE: Our OO Verus Procdedural Discussions and New Forum

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

<Paul>
3.      IMHO:  OO is paradigm changing and is not easy to initially
grasp however
it has the capability to reduce development times by orders and
magnitude.

...

4.      IMHO:  It is my assertion that procedural approaches cannot
solve
business problems with anywhere near the productivity and flexibility
that an OO approach yields.  
</Paul>

Just so I am clear on what you are calling "procedural".  Do you mean
heavy use of RPGILE (*SrvPgm objects)?  Or are we talking *PGM objects?

I do agree that Java has a decent amount more of flexibility, but I want
to make sure we are taking all of RPG's best features into account.  RPG
is a very modular language where I can reuse components quite easily
(talking *SrvPgm's here).  I just don't have features like inheritance,
abstract classes, overloading, overriding, and interfaces.

Here's a quick sample of some RPG code that was developed in a modular
fashion.  
http://mowyourlawn.com/html/RPGMAILExample.php

Aaron Bartell