Re: How about in INC opcode

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You'll get no argument from me there, I couldn't care less where the
power comes from. I wonder if there is anyway to call a perl program
from within an RPG or CL and pass data back and forth. If so then
problem solved.

"Martin, Booth" wrote:
> 
> If something is to lean Perl-ward why not let it be CL?  CL has a lot of
> power and adding in the scripting power of Perl would give the AS/400 two
> strong thrusts towards problem solving.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 8:37 AM
> To: boothm@goddard.edu
> Subject: Re: How about in INC opcode
> 
> L.S. wrote:
> >I despise ++ because I tend to over look it. I would much prefer an INC
> >opcode for the very point you made, it is not ambiguous.
> >I agree with you that a += operator would be handy as all get out, but
> >while your at it let have a %split bif and some of the good stuff from
> >perl.
> >I would love it if RPG would lean perlward in the future.
> 
> Well, you know I'm a big Perl fan.  And my colleague
> Barbara has even started playing with it too!
> 
> However, Perl and RPG are fundamentally different
> languages.  One is compiled and the other is
> interpreted.  Interpreted languages aren't hobbled
> by the same restraints that compiled languages
> suffer from.  Interpreted languages typically can
> offer much more rich functionality, but compiled
> languages typically can offer much better run-time
> performance.  So you have yet another case of
> trading off factors:  Do you want fast run-time
> performance?  Or do you want fast development time?
> 
> Actually, in practice, there really isn't much of a
> run-time performance penalty when using a function-
> rich language like Perl.  Since Much of the run-time
> of a Perl program happens in the run-time library
> anyways, typical Perl programs run about the same as
> comparable C++ programs!
> 
> Regarding a %SPLIT built-in in RPG, wouldn't that be
> great?  Unfortunately, the implementation wouldn't
> be easy.  In Perl it's easy since it can handle
> arrays dynamically anyways (everythings handled
> dynamically!).  But RPG would have to allocate space
> to handle the worst case scenarios, which gets
> expensive fast!  Perhaps we could just clone the
> Perl run-time environment, but then you might just
> as well write your program in Perl.
> 
> The bottom line is this:  Use the appropriate tool
> for the task.  For business apps, keep using RPG.
> For tasks that requires heavy string manipulation,
> Perl is better.
> 
> (Is this getting too far off topic?)
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
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