Re: VARPG (was Design Change Requests)

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

wellll....  actually....  the salesman sez VARPG produces Java, and I 
have done it.  (see screen shots at http://tinyurl.com/azj4x ).

The screen shots show both a Windows build and a Java build.  The 
generated Java code is shown toward the bottom of the page.  I don't 
know Java, but I am told the generated Java code is really really ugly.


Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> <snip>
> The hardest part for me was to appreciate the significance and 
> opportunities for design improvements using event based logic over cycle 
> based logic.  That may be a non-issue for college trained programmers 
> who are used to event vs cycle, but for an old hack its an Epiphany.
> </snip>
>
> Very well said Booth, an Epiphany it was for me..  When I took my Masters 
> in Software Engineering, the hardest portion of the entire program was 
> getting out of my old procedural ways.  Now I do all design, and to the 
> best of RPG's ability object oriented programming.  Procedures can loosely 
> be called methods and the main program the class.  Once you're past that, 
> easy street.  I did not bother to learn VARPG because I really wanted to 
> learn Java, but I can not believe it would be a big stretch.  I saw and 
> article somewhere that expounded on how to fake RPG into an object 
> orientation and it was a good one. 
>
> The main reason VARPG did not catch on, is it was ahead of it's time.  Fat 
> clients are out in favor of browser based applications.  Now, if it would 
> produce real honest applets and servlets, I would be far more interested 
> because I can deliver the function via a browser. 
>
> Jim Oberholtzer