Re: RPGV?

Hi John,

I more or less agree with you.

But, does it make sense for IBM to develop features aimed at the RPG/400 programmer (or RPG IV programmer who codes RPG IV exactly as he did RPG/400)???

Those people aren't using the new features anyway! So creating more functionality aimed at them is a waste of time.


john e wrote:

Ok, maybe i encountered two, in my 20 yrs of RPG experience...
But i encountered many on this forum with (some) OO knowledge, or programming knowledge / interest in general.
This forum is in no way representative of RPG programmers.

I suppose that every knowledgable RPG programmer (i.e. is interested in programming in general) reads this forum.

The programming knowledge / interest of the average RPG programmer is embarrassing...

Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:07:47 -0600
From: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: RPGV?

John

You have encountered one now - who has known of that stuff for years.

;-)

john e wrote:

Namespaces / overloading has nothing to do with OO.
OO is all about encapsulation.
You don't encapsulate anything with namespaces/overloading.

OORPG... please

First try to make the current version of RPG a bit more sane...

And why bother, i never encountered an RPG programmer who even heard about terms like "encapsulation" or even "variable scoping", let alone use it.

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