Re: Uncaught Errors in Interactive Programs and the Users that Ignore the Errors

Stu

It's so much more fun now to do APIs in CL, with the *PTR data type and *BASED and *DEFINED. It's actually pretty cool - no more %BIN() builtin functions.

I still find RTV* type commands to be very effective, and APIs for what those don't give us.

*DEFINED gives you something like data structure OVERLAY capability. Still a little awkward but so much better than before.

Native IO? If I were a real masochist I'd do it in C!

Vern

Stuart Rowe wrote:

I haven't written an actual CL program (or module) in several years, ever
since the capability came about to NOT use CL nicely (with all the fabulous
APIs we have now). I'll go so far as to rewrite CL into RPG or C when I get
even the slightest opportunity.

Stu


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:42, John Rusling <jrusling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Ditto -- almost NO CL, and using QCAPCMD in RPG!
(Well, a procedure 'wrapper' over qcapcmd.)
Msgid = RunCommand(Cmd)
Easy peasy!

I wonder how many others are doing it this way...

John B.

Duane Christen
P.S. I don't code CL programs anymore I use QCAPCMD exclusively to run

commands from > RPG.

Duane Christen
Senior Software Engineer
(319) 790-7162
Duane.christen@xxxxxxxxxx

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