Re: Time to get serious

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:40:02 -0600, Joe Pluta
<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: David Gibbs
> >
> > OOP is a programming technique ... not a function that you can perform
> > with a program.  (...)
> 
> I agree entirely with David.  James basically listed language syntax
> features that RPG doesn't have.  You could just as well say that Java
> doesn't have the RPG cycle.  I guarantee I can EMULATE every feature
> James listed, just not as concisely.

I agree with James!

What about something simple like address book functionality?  Vendors,
Customers, and Employees all have the same core requirements of a name
and address.  In an OO language you would write the address book
object once, then drop it in as a base struct in the vendor, customer
and employee data struct.   You cant do that in RPG ( or ILE ).

Sell RPG all you want.  But you have to open source RPG and ILE in
order to give it the features it needs to compete with .NET.  IBM is
no longer in the os400 business.

-Steve