Re: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

There's another situation to this.
"One mans poison is another mans meat"
and no I didn't write that the wrong way around.
The point I am trying to make is there have been occasions where I have had
to maintain a program written by someone else and I have come across some
coding where either I don't understand it, or I've thought - that's nifty,
or peachy keen
When I've approached that person to explain what I couldn't understand, and
I asked them why no comments, I have had the reply that they didn't think
that the coding would present a problem.
In other words - to the person creating the code - no big deal



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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/07/2009 12:33:33 PM:

From: Aaron Bartell
if you changed the question to be more pointed ...

That was my problem. Are we talking about nifty as in stylish, or
nifty as in substantial?

My interest in ILE RPG is not its style, but rather its substance.
Or perhaps the substantial things you can do with it - like building
a business.

MS .Net and Java offer substantial (as in humongous) frameworks for
application development, but there are times when their developers
would give it all up for record-level I/O.

So rather than give up record-level I/O, ILE RPG allows programmers
to build their own component libraries, reusable functions,
procedure-wrappers over procedure-wrappers over procedure-wrappers,
that offer high-level encapsulation found in the most robust IDEs.

So the niftiest (as in substantial) thing I've done in ILE RPG is to
build frameworks. But I hope that in the near future my frameworks
will be inconsequential (as in substance) in comparison to the
applications that I build with RPG.

Nathan.




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