IBM's failure to provide AD tools

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>From: Hall, Philip <phall@spss.com>
>> > I think ILE is one of the best things going on
>?> > the iSeries platform.
>>
>> But it took such a long time for the iSeries to catch up with the rest
of
>> the development/runtime world by having 'ILE' - none of it's concepts
are
>> unique to the iSeries, or software development, they just finally got
there.
>> _______________________________________________
>
>And it took a long time. Bound programs, procedures and modules
>are 40+ year old concepts.
>Leif


I remember during the 80's  that it was said that the pinnacle of
flexibility
was the ability to do dynamic calls easily.   The 38 was great because you
could
do dynamic calls.

I see the strengths of binding,  However I still think the best is dynamic
calls
BEFORE you start any rebuttal,   I am IGNORING performance issues.  I am
only
talking about the flexibility of Having PGM A compilable whether or not PGM
B
exists yet.

Yes Compile time verification of Parameter Lists(ie prototypes) is great no
doubt
about it.

But the other platforms ONLY have the Make and binding concepts to compare
from
in most cases.

Dynamic Calls - Not Always Bad
Bound Calls - Not Always Good.

I still don't agree with the Service Program being bound when it's caller
is invoked.   Many times the service program's
procedures may not even be called logically.   I wish they would have did
the final resolution binding at "First Touch"
instead of automatically when it's caller is invoked.

Just an opinion
John Carr

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