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On 8/10/07, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good points, Joe.
RPG may be a procedurally oriented language, but having variables and data with module-level scope is no different than having variables and data with class-level scope in an OO language.
that is a good point. a strong case can be made that the less state
there is in a program, the better. As I understand the contrast of
imperative and functional languages to be, the variable action of a
procedure should be governed entirely by its parameters. That means a
procedure should not access a static or class member variable. To do
that would mean the procedure cant be isolated and tested completely -
it cant be verified. This also means you cant read a record in a
database and perform an action. Which kind of means you should just
power down the system since none of the code you run is close to being
verifiable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming
-Steve
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