RE: RE: RPG, 10 years from now

 >> they have to keep their plans a secret so the competitors don't steal
their ideas?? I don't think so.  The enhancements to CL were kept secret and
the result were subroutines

The fact that they didn't tell you doesn't make it a secret Steve.  There
was quite a large group of iSeries users recruited by IBM to advise and
review the CL enhancements.  I wasn't one of them but I know a few who were.
Personally I agree that subprocedures would have been a better choice - but
then I rarely program in CL so what do I know.

 >> C# knows nothing about talking to a blackberry.  why should RPG? 

Because RPG programmers want it to?  API access to most everything is
already available.  It could be made a lot simpler than it is if folks would
take the trouble to wrap their APIs as SPECIAL files - that would make both
sides happy since the "If it can't be accessed via a READ/CHAIN/WRITE I
won't use it" would be using the stuff as well as those of us who do use the
APIs. 


Jon Paris
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