RE: RPGLE & RPG/400

On Wednesday, September 09, 1998 8:46 AM, Hans Boldt 
[SMTP:boldt@ca.ibm.com] wrote:
> Pavan Krishnamurthy wrote"
> >What are the new features of RPGLE and What are the basic advantages &
> >disadvantages of RPGLE over the other versions of RPG ?
>
> There are many advantages.  I can list only a few here:
-snip-
> Disadvantages?  Well, it's not an object-oriented
> language, but then, neither is OPM RPG.  I can't
> think of any area where ILE RPG is worse than OPM
> RPG,  OK, I can think of two possible complaints:
> 1) Programmers have a lot of new stuff to learn;
> and 2) We haven't improved the language enough!

With all due respect, there are a few places where an old-fashioned OPM 
RPG programmer *might* view ILE (not RPG IV) to have drawbacks:
1) Lack of system supplied MAKE
2) Lack of system supplied cross-reference tools, to track modules, 
service programs, named AG's, etc.
3) More complex development environment
4) More complex runtime environment (OVRxxx scoping, etc.)

Personally, I welcome the changes that ILE brings to the table; we can 
finally develop modern applications without having to resort to the tricks 
that the simpler OPM environment forced on us.  Clearly, in order to do 
modern work, we NEED the more complex ILE environment, but a lot of 
old-timers will have to work a bit to grasp the possibilities.  Those 
folks will see ILE's complexity as a disadvantage.

As an aside to Hans, you should know that we'll *never* be satisfied that 
IBM have improved the language enough!  <grin>

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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