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

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Subject: Re: Will RPG eve become an object-oriented language?
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:31:14 -0600
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If anyone *really *cares about OORPG, there's a simple open-source answer.

Author and publish a front-end preprocessor whose input is your OORPG
dialect and whose output is RPG Free source code.

That's how C++ started: It was a preprocessor that outputs C.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 12:05 PM Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I asked Barbara Moris 20+ years ago if ILE RPG might ever become an
object-oriented language. At that time she indicated that it was a subject
of debate within IBM.

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