RE: v4 vs v5 rpg. was Prototypes, /COPY and LIKE()

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,

Those links refer to V5 rpg. I have stated that the V5 enhancements to RPG
was a big step forward for RPG.

( it is such a good improvement that it makes efforts to develop coding
techniques that apply to both V4 and V5 rpg impossible.  for example, in V5
rpg your database flds are best given simple, non unique names.  Where the
qualified ds they are members of give them their uniqueness.  In V4 rpg,
database fld names are best assigned as unique names. )

My argument is that while MS is increasing its R/D and agressively courting
developers ( and RPG programmers are being laid off ), IBM only has plans
for minor improvements to RPG ( and, it appears, os400 ).

IBM has the money.  It just has to believe in its own products enough to
continue to invest in them.

-Steve

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Subject: Re: v4 vs v5 rpg. was Prototypes, /COPY and LIKE()


> You cite first!  Because of the conspiracy, there
> will not be any IBMers on the record stating
> that RPG is history.

http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l/200006/msg00038.html - Edmund
Reinhard, saying that IBM is committed to RPG.
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wds400/about/ile_rpg.html - The RPG
web page.  I count 13 bulleted enhancements for 5.2, and 19 for 5.1.

> The point being that there are a lot of ways
> that rpg can be improved.  Yet, there are no
> v4 to v5 like improvements planned.

Can you share the Lab's future plans with the rest of us?
  --buck



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