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Re: Will RPG eve become an object-oriented language?

One thing to consider and have in mind is that the IBMi operating system
"is" an object-oriented operating system, and it is full of many types of
objects. So, why not drive RPG into something that supports the same
approach as its own host OS? :-)

Javier.

El mar, 21 feb 2023 a las 11:57, VERNON HAMBERG Owner via MIDRANGE-L (<
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) escribió:

I'm of the opinion that object orientation is a way of thinking - and some
languages help to enforce its use. We can write code that is quite
object-oriented now - overloading might be a stretch. But we can think __in
terms of__ objects, attributes, and methods anytime we want in RPGLE. In
some ways, I think we had __better__ think that way!


Cheers
Vern


On Tue, 21 Feb, 2023 at 10:35 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


To: midrange systems technical discussion

True.


Jon P.

On Feb 20, 2023, at 8:06 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

I would venture a guess that overloading, while a great feature, is
likely very low on the adoption scale.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power


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Subject: Re: Will RPG eve become an object-oriented language?

It was discussed over 20 years ago and was rejected then as it should be
now.

That's not to say that there aren't a few more OOP type features that
would be nice - and indeed some have already been added (overloading for
example)


Jon P.

On Feb 20, 2023, at 6:29 PM, Javier Sanchez <
javiersanchezbarquero@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:javiersanchezbarquero@xxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:

This key question....mmmm...I like very much the evolution of RPG and
all
of its BIF's, and even DB2 SQL TR's related to supporting the latest
Open
Source technologies.

How about start thinking of turning RPG into an OOL?
Is that in mind at IBM?

I think that would be just GREAT!

Regards.

Javier.
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