RE: DDS Support

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(MAJOR SNIP)

Richard,

you bring up one of my pet peeves over the years.  WHY hasn't IBM just
enhanced current languages to provide the functionality that we now
have a PLETHORA of spurious languages?  

As we've seen most recently with RPG, the languange definitions and
functions can easily be enhanced and then it becomes a COMPILER issue to
make the object work and work efficiently.  

I'll go one futher:  Why can't users write their own opcodes?  We saw the
concept back in RPG 2.5 where macros in effect were copied in at precomile
time...but, why can't I create a op code, put it in some set lib area and
have it as a valid one that the compiler will just understand and roll
with?  From what I've spoken with some of the folks on the MI400 list off
line, creating a compiler for this box isn't that much of a chore and
heck, why not just make the compiler available to those that want to
customize their own compiler...yeah, I know it tends to throw standards in
the crapper...maybe..:)

AND, then there's my MAJOR pet PEEVER with RPG...when the heck are we
going to get multidimensional arrays!?  Prefereably ones that org:1 not
org:0 like C, Java, etc....or better yet to appeas the unix/C weenies,
allow a compile time option to allow the programmer to decide if they
org:0 or org:1 (would be a NICE feature for Java and C as well!!!! HINT :)

OK, I'll go back to my cage...:)

Don in DC

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