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On Apr 12, 2011, at 6:48 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am involved in a philosophical argument with one of the lead developers
in
the JDE/Oracle V5R4 shop where I have been working as a consultant for the
last five years.
Frankly I doubt if anyone that blind to the obvious will be persuaded even by 50 valid points let alone 5 but...
One can also posit the negative argument. e.g. Would she insist that a VB programmer restrict themselves to the facilities of VB4? That's what she's doing by saying that RPG IV can't be used. RPG IV came out _before_ VB4.
Other reasons:
1) Local variables - essential in any modern programming environment. There's a reason every programming language (except RPG/400) has them.
2) Expressions - logical, arithmetic and character
3) Subprocedures - the basic application building block - again - there's a good reason all other languages have them.
4) Built-in functions. Some 90 odd labor saving devices at the last count.
5) Date and time arithmetic
6) Long variable names
7) Multi-dimensional arrays - even the simplest Excel spreadsheet is a two dimensional array. But RPG/400 can't do them.
8) Define your own data types (TEMPLATE)
9) XML processing built-in
And on and on and on and ...
Jon Paris
midrange.com
