Re: will v6r1 RPG support main procedure recursion?

On 10/9/07, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Steve Richter

no, thanks. I am talking about RPG and Java working together on the
400 like C++ and VB do in .NET.

I'm going to kick myself for getting into this conversation, but what the
heck, I haven't had a root canal lately, so...

Steve, your constant requirement that i5/OS tools work "like they do in
.NET" is as useless as me asking that Windows use a single level store. It
wastes everyone's time, because it's a non-sequitur.

RPG and Java interoperability on i5/OS is as good as any two languages that
don't compile to the same intermediate language. It's better than any of
the scripting languages' (that includes PHP, Perl, Python, you name it) and
outside languages.

On the other side of the coin, all of the ILE languages interact as well as
the .NET languages, precisely because they do use the same basic underlying
architecture (and were doing it long before .NET).

So quit playing my architecture is bigger than your architecture and explain
an actual business application where the Java<->RPG interaction in i5/OS
won't work. I don't want to hear any mumbo-jumbo about threads or recursion
or what have you. Just give me a single business application that the
architecture won't support.

Ah, I nearly deleted this because I know it's a waste of time, but what the
hell, occasionally you make me think outside my own box, so maybe you'll
give me the courtesy of answering my question for once.

I apologize. I should have left out the 2nd part of the message. I am
interested in knowing if the internals of v6r1 RPG have been
fundementally changed.

( On the .NET vs i5/OS front, the comparison that I am interested in
is languages that garbage collect vs those that dont. C++ used to be
important. Almost overnight, with the adoption of managed code by
MSFT, it is legacy because it does not GC. Garbage collection in RPG
would work really well for its many business oriented programmers. )