RPG and Web.. (was Using OO concepts in RPG)

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   2. Re: RPG and Web.. (was Using OO concepts in RPG) (Hans Boldt)
>
>Brad Stone wrote:
>> ...
>> Escaping/encoding.. The only "bug" (but listed as "bugs")
>> that you've brought up for the past 3 years.  :)
>>
>> You yourself say it's not rocket science.  It isn't.  So
>> why not "add that GPS" to our honda civic as a bif?
>
>It's not the place of a programming language to add domain specific
>functionality into the base language. For example, should RPG have a
>compound interest BIF? or a set of accounts payable BIF's?

<snip>

>> I don't know if CGIDEV2 has been updated to include this.
>>  But updating CGIDEV2 to do this would take less than 10
>> minutes.
>
>But has it? By your evasiveness, can I assume it *still* doesn't
>have that basic functionality? The Python programmer can easily find
>the functionality for escaping text in HTML in function cgi.escape()
>or the functionality for URL encoding with function urllib.quote()
>(among others).
>
>My point is that the CGI RPG programmer is missing some fundamental
>functionality in the available procedure libraries.  Functionality
>that programmers in other languages like Java and Perl and Python
>take for granted in their class libraries. Functionality that's
>necessary for the majority of CGI programs.

Well, after thinking this over and over, I'm missing something somewhere.

Does IBM support Python?
If not...
...then, for RPG, wouldn't we look to %bif()s for similar functionality? or, 
perhaps better, to system service programs/APIs? I'm not clear whether IBM 
supplies "procedure libraries" that fit the bill for RPG.

I guess in short it comes down to "Does IBM want us to use iSeries as a server 
on the intranet/Internet? And if so, does IBM want us to use it's primary 
supported iSeries language to do it?"

It seems to me from my limited viewpoint that the answer to at least one of 
those questions is "No." Unless... RPG's not what it once was.

Tom Liotta

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