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

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

True, Justin - you're repeating what others have said - IBM i is 
object-based, not object-oriented. The objects are like OO in that each 
object has attributes and methods - things you can ask to be done and 
things that are just a part of it, like the security functionality. 
There is also a certain level of inheritance - SQL tables and PFs are 
both built around a thing called a space, which has functionality needed 
for everything derived from it. But a PF and an SQL table have certain 
attributes that distinguish one from the other - you can see this in the 
first section of DSPFD.

None of this, basically translates into what we do in RPG. I think Mark 
Waterbury said the same, a little bit more briefly, right?

Regards
Vern

On 2/22/2023 1:01 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> Personally, I feel that "object-oriented" means something different in the
> context of OOP vs IBMi.
>
>
> date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:45:01 -0600
> > from: Javier Sanchez <javiersanchezbarquero@xxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: 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.