FW: IBM's RPG Strategy (was: Long Procedure Names)

 >> Follow the lead of Microsoft and develop a CLI specification that
enables modules written in C++, RPG and Java to be used interchangeably.

Steve,

It already exists - it's called Java byte code - it's where Microsoft stole
the idea for CLI.  Of course one could also say that Sun stole the idea from
the S/38, AS/400, iSeries.

To comment more specifically on your ideas, while I agree with some of them,
the list needs to have some semblance of reality.  Changing the compiler
architects/management would not produce the results you desire.  If anything
it would probably guarantee that the future held no enhancements at all.
The folks in charge right now are pretty much career RPG people - most other
people in the labs go "RPG what?"


Jon Paris