RE: Using OO concepts in RPG

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron, exactly! But go one step farther.  
 
The IBM RPG Compiler Team has things on their to-do list.  The discussion
was about what direction they should go on the to-do list.  It is my opinion
that their effort should be focused on what RPG has always been about  -
Report Program Generating.  There are so many varied reporting requirements
from management these days, and the RPG opcodes and printing commands are so
stale and petrified.   The reports today are not just green screen and green
bar.
 
All the new RPG capabilities are nice and really appeal to the geekiness in
all of us, but our bosses are getting pissed.  They want pretty printing and
we can't do it with our available tools.
 
Please don't tell me about Open Source stuff.  Please.  Thats still
hobbyware.  No professional organization is going to stake its data
retrieval on a product where they can't pick up  a phone and talk to a peer
in upper management.
 
 Frankly I really don't care how the RPG Team solves it, so long as it isn't
restricted to "We'll let you call some other product or language.  In the
meantime all you RPG Programmers better learn Java because that's the future
"  I'm tired of that message.
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:57:24 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Using OO concepts in RPG
 
Martin, I haven't been following this thread in it entirety so excuse me for
jumping in if my question isn't pertinent.
 
Are you asking that RPG support all of those features natively vs having RPG
make a call to a Java Servlet or something? My opinion wouldn't be that RPG
support it natively but rather the bridge from RPG to other languages and
protocols be made seamless. This would allow us to use existing technology
that is changing incredibly fast, and we wouldn't have to worry about IBM
getting us their latest version - like IBM's Apache, or IBM's Tomcat, or
IBM's JDK, etc.
 
My thoughts at 1:00am. I need to get to bed!
 
Aaron Bartell