Re: V6R1 Info

I don't think the lack of adoption of procedures, service programs and
ILE has anything to do with the level of reflection offered by ILE. I
think it has more to do with the background and skill sets of most RPG
programmers. Regardless of the need to type a prototype definition in
again (assuming you don't use /copy), if programmers found ILE
useful...if they embraced the concept, then reentering the definition
is trivial.

On Jan 30, 2008 2:25 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 30, 2008 2:14 PM, James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve Richter wrote:

On Jan 30, 2008 1:24 PM, Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

The downside being they make the language even more RPG like.

And this is a bad thing in what way?!?

I think the language should be less like RPG and more in tune with Java.

( RPG

threading and elimination of the RPG cycle is great news. Would like to

know

if RPG programs can now be called recursively. )

If you want a language that's "less like RPG," use a different language.
In particular, if you want a language "more in tune with Java," use Java.

And I was under the impression that there had been an option to
eliminate The Cycle since somewhere in the V5s (and again, if you have
such an aversion to The Cycle, why are you using RPG at all?)

what matters is if my opinion is valid or not. In every shop ( except one )
I have worked in the last few years, service programs and procedures have
been rarely used. I think it is because programs and service programs dont
support the level of reflection needed to automate the detail work the
current RPG ILE programmer has to learn and do. ( in .NET, by
comparison, there are no header files, no binding source, no signature
violations )

--
James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation

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