Re: PC RPG compiler?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I can see two points for arguing between RPG ILE and RPG IV
1)  That newbies can see that you can do a simple CVTRPGSRC to get started.
2)  To see if a person applying for a job has any knowledge of the points
of ILE.  However since we argue this on this list I fail to see if the
applicant would get the terminology right and would either a) delve down
into the details or b) figure that I'd just train them myself.

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin



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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 rob@dekko.com wrote:
>
> Then where would the manual on RPG IV be found?
>

Rob,

By the same token, there's no manual for BASIC.  Sure, there's Visual
BASIC, and Quick BASIC, and GW BASIC and even Applesoft BASIC, but no
manual for "BASIC".

Why?  Because the manuals are for a specific implementation of BASIC.
Just as the IBM manuals are for ILE RPG (a specific implementation of RPG
IV)

If you created your own "Rob RPG", it might also be an implementation of
RPG IV, but your manual would be for "Rob RPG", not for RPG IV in general.

This is the point I was trying to make before it got blown up into this
whole big deal -- RPG IV is the language, ILE RPG is IBM's AS/400
compiler.

But I'm sure you people will continue to write sarcastic messages at me
for DARING to bring this point up.  Heaven forbid that I should point out
that "ILE RPG" is not the same as "RPG IV".  What is wrong with me,
anyway?


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