Re: Prototyping

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:45:05 -0600
>From: "David Morris" <dmorris@plumcreek.com>
>
>I didn't realize that the cross-language version would take days and the
other
>would take months.  I do wish that something would be delivered and I
can't
>imagine how it takes three years of negotiation to get something that will
take
>days to implement approved.  I have a few weeks in workarounds.

David, Hans didn't mean it would take a few days in total.  It would be a
huge effort requiring very careful architecture.  But the RPG compiler
part of it might just take a few days.  Actually, I think the individual
compiler effort would be more than a few days.  But the question of
whether this should be an RPG-only effort vs a full all-language effort
is more than just a cost or time issue.  I believe it would be just
plain wrong for a single language to invent its own scheme for handling
varying type parameters.

By the way, what we are talking about here is only partially related to
operational descriptors.

Barbara Morris

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