RE: My RPG needs steriods

["Bruce Odum" <bodum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are no limitations.  Use the c api's you can do anything ie:
  *Prototypes for math functions                       
 dsin              PR             8f   Extproc('sin')  
 din                              8f   value           
 dcos              PR             8f   Extproc('cos')  
 din                              8f   value           
 dacos             PR             8f   Extproc('acos') 
 din                              8f   value           
  //Convert Raidans To Miles                   
  theta = long1 - long2;                       
  dist = radius * acos((sin(lat1)*sin(lat2))+  
  (cos(lat1)*cos(lat2)*cos(theta)));           
                                               


Bruce Odum
.Net\AS400 Programmer

(423) 510-3821
U.S. XPRESS ENTERPRISES, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: James R. Newman, CDP [mailto:newman400@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:57 PM
To: Midrange RPG
Subject: My RPG needs steriods

I'm about to start rewriting my RPG400 applications to add more
calculations (I was going to do the rewrite in RPG400 also).  Only thing
is I could really use something more "verbose" when it comes to
calculations.  The rewrite will do things like compute an average,
maximum, and minimum of a variable over time.  Are there ways around
some of the mathematical limitations of RPG or are there other iSeries
languages I should consider.  Does ILE buy me anything here?

Also, I'm still using PDM to write code.  Are there better things to use
for development?  Whatever happened to CODE400, VisualRPG, etc?  

BTW, these are NOT web apps so no need to webface them, although some of
the tools I've seen look pretty snappy.

TIA - I'm just a tad rusty - does it show?  :)
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