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  3. May 2003

Re: open source rpg compiler

Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) wrote: 
I wish so bad that I could quit using RPG and do my development in Java, but
the reality of it all is I exist in a shop where 99.9% of the programs are
written in RPG.  If it doesn't get pointed out often then people won't think
that RPG OO is needed.  As for how hard it would be to make RPG OO, I have
no idea - never written a compiler before.

Eric made my points already, that enhancing procedural languages to be object-oriented is never a good idea, and you end up with something kludgy, like C++.

Regarding the 99.9% of your code that's written in RPG, how is an OO language going to help that? For OO to benefit your shop, you'd have to rewrite your apps anyways, and so you might then just as well go to a true OO language.

Cheers! Hans



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