Re: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)

["Eric N. Wilson" <doulos1@xxxxxxxx>]

I for one would love to see any examples of DSM code (especially rogue :-)
that I could get my hands on!

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Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software & Computer Services
2913 N Alder St.
Tacoma WA 98407


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Hall" <hallp@ssax.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)


> : phil,
> :
> : We have been using Dynamic Screen APIs and full database
> encapsulation in an application
> : framework for about two years.  The code is not trivial, but I
> wouldn't go back.  At that
> : level, you have to worry about a lot of things that most RPG
> programs don't worry about
> : today.  Some of those things are memory management, caching,
> recursion, parameterized
> : types, dynamic calls, debugger limitations, etc.  A C programmer is
> probably much more
> : comfortable managing these things in their applications.
>
> Yes, I'm a ILE/C (ex RPG) programmer, and I use DSM & database
> encapsulation in my code too. You're right too, that once you're doing
> it, going back is a step in the wrong direction.
>
> Some of the more fun things I've done with the DSM is to use them in
> porting the Unix games 'rouge' and 'advent' among other things
>
> If we were to use the DSM API's in a OpenSource project in itself
> would be of benefit, there is hardly any examples of using them for
> other programmers to look at
>
> --phil
>
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