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Re: Advantages of RPG

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Alan Campin
<Alan.Campin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... and then along came RPG IV and ILE and I literally thought I had died and gone to
heaven. Everything I had been yelling about for years and more and there
it was. The first time that I was able to write code using a
subprocedure and watch the code melt away it was pure nirvana.

Ditto.

My favorite things in RPG/ILE.

Long names
Qualified Data Structures.
Sub-procedures
Local Variables
Built-in functions.
Free-Format SQL


Dynamic linking and scoped variables.
Pointer math and pointer-based procedures.

There are things OO is great for (GUI), but, for business
programming, good 'ol top-down procedural RPG is the way to go.

Chris
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