PC RPG compiler

["Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >> I'm sorry, but I can't agree with you.  ILE stands for Integrated
Language Environment.

Agreed.  But that's where we part company.

Actually ILE does exist on other platforms to some degree - that's why the
ILE APIs are named CEE.... it stands for Common Execution Environment.  Not
sure if it is still available for the PC platform, but it was probably only
OS/2 anyway.

One reason why the compiler on the 400 is known as ILE RPG is because those
of us who were involved in the naming process were looking in the wrong
direction when some dingbat took the name of the compiler package (i.e. the
one that incorporated RPG IV, RPG/400, RPG/38, etc.) and slapped it on the
RPG IV compiler.  This was daft because now there was no distinction between
the package name and one of its components.  Considerable customer confusion
resulted and there were many people who thought they could no longer get the
old compilers.

Perhaps more importantly, it conveyed the mistaken idea that you could
_only_ run RPG IV programs if you went into full ILE. As you stated that is
not true, but there are very few things in the RPG IV _language_ that you
can't do in pseudo-OPM.  Interestingly enough, the things you can't do (like
subprocedures) _are_ supported by VARPG and others.  It is only the OS/400
related things like AGs that you can't use - and they aren't part of the
language. Many people stayed away from RPG IV because of the implication
that you had to run in ILE and that is partly why I (and many others) refuse
to use the stupid ILE RPG name and prefer to refer to it as RPG IV.

We can argue semantics 'til the cows come home, but since most people think
of ILE RPG in terms of the syntax of the language, I find nothing wrong with
saying that VARPG uses "ILE RPG".  What else