RE: Compute Date Duration

Well the word "natively" to me means a function of the language itself. Your
definition is not what I had in mind (obviously).
I agree with your statement in this context, however.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


-----Original Message-----
From: mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:41 AM
To: MI Programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [MI400] Compute Date Duration

On 10/17/05, Bob Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay. I think I see where you're going.
> MI and C runtime libraries and MI built-ins are native to all languages on
> the 400? Is that it?
>

No, not at all. Nothing to do with the 400.
Let me repeat:
in ANY language you can natively and directly do
ANYTHING without ANY built-ins, libraries, functions,
whatnots. You can do date durations, bit manipulation,
list processing, recursive calls, stacks, heaps, whatever.
And sometimes it is even EASIER to do these things
directly and natively than fighting an obscure API-interface...

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