Re: RPGV?

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hans,
I couldn't agree more. If you want to use OO use an OO language. It's okay,
IMHO, to use *some* OO *concepts* in RPG, but RPG is not and should not be
an OO language.

--
James R. Perkins


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 14:29, Hans Boldt <hans@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My last four years at IBM, I worked on the PL/X compiler. The language
> started out as a procedural language, and later, OO was tacked on.
>
> I would not wish that language onto my biggest enemies.
>
> I greatly fear that if OO were tacked onto RPG, RPG would become like PL/X.
>
> In my opinion, if you want to do OO programming, do it with a language
> where OO was built in right from the start.
>
> I've said this before, if you want to learn OO, start with Python. It
> has a very easy, yet powerful object model. Once you learn what OO is
> all about, then move onto a compiled OO language, like Java.
>
> What about C#? My opinion is that the language designers at Microsoft
> looked at all possible OO language features, couldn't agree on which
> were important, and then decided to include them all.
>
> Cheers! Hans
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