Well... this was a good, on-subject thread for several messages until it
got wrecked by the same types of arguments that typically happen.
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On Jan 30, 2008 2:22 PM, Aaron Bartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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. )
RPG has had recursion for more years than I have been with the platform.
Guessing it came in V3R1 when ILE came.
I just checked. I think you are right ;)
Java has good and bad parts.
what are the bad parts? My answer would be that you cant use it to write a
green screen program. If it could, shops would have a migration path away
from RPG.
Hopefully RPG will only ever take on the good
parts. Multi-thread safe holds some nice possibilities for scaling
client/server programming. Maybe we should build and starting coining
the
term "RPG App Server" :-)
check out this video for a tiny sliver of what MSFT is doing on the
language
front. It is about extensions being added to .NET languages which allow
each
iteration of a for each loop to be run in parallel, on as many threads as
the hardware can run simultaneously. I love the idea of IBM competing and
improving RPG. They have to spend the investment money which matches the
competition.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=375042
-Steve
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