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Steve Richter wrote:
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A way to improve RPG is by integrating it even more to the OS.  Support the
multiple occurance data struct as an object type in os/400.  Then access the
mods in RPG just as it is used now.  Where the OS insures the integrity of
the structure and serializes access.

Steve: One of the reasons RPG is not widely used on other systems is because it is already too tied to the iSeries operating system. The trend these days is to *not* have any O/S dependencies in a programming language, and to abstract out any O/S specific functionality into general non-O/S specific class libraries. Using an abstraction layer over the O/S services (such as the modules "os" and "os.path" in Python) allows you to easily port programs between different systems.


Multiple occurrence data structure as an object type in OS/400? You already have it - it's called a table in a relational database.

Cheers! Hans



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