Re: the advantages of garbage collection

Unless you are dealing with features which are not used by the vast majority
of programmers in normal business application, there is no need for garbage
collection in RPG per se. However, in Windows, this is not necessarily true.
Sloppily written routines will mess things up and cause you to reboot.

On my Vista laptop (and I do little more than web-surf, check e-mail, and
occasionally connect to work via a VPN), there are about 60 error log
entries every week. OS/400 beats that hands-down (even on a system with 500+
users).

All I'll say is, I'd rather have a green screen than a blue screen (of
death).


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:34 PM, <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

so RPG hasn't improved? geez they added more functionality, ease of use,
etc in the past 5 years that we can't even keep up! MicroSucks may be
*improving* their languages...but that's because most of them suck. VB
(or VB.NET <http://vb.net/>) is still just a "play-thing" for kids when it
comes to
business oriented programming. C and all it's variants are more suitable
for business apps than VB. .NET isn't the greatest thing since sliced
bread (if it were then we'd really be in trouble...think of all the things
that have happened over the years...that phrase needs a remodel but i
digress). RPG *can* and *will* be improved upon...get your head out of
the M$ clouds(or it's nether-regions) and look at the facts. i know you
love fiction...you write it constantly

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
"RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
06/23/2008 12:24 PM
Subject:
Re: the advantages of garbage collection



On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Christen, Duane J. wrote:

I'm trying to understand Steve's reasoning on why RPG is bad because it

doesn't have GC.

Same here. :)

never said it. ( at least publicly! ) Last week it was asked if RPG
was a dead language. Without objects and a GC, RPG simply cant be
improved beyond what it is now. As demonstrated by MSFT, there are
plenty of ways to improve languages.
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