Re: Is RPG dying

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 (Total time is one example. "OnLoad" type events in GUI programming are
another.)
- Scott we have moved a little further ;-)

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> <snip>
>
> Event-driven doesn't necessarily mean "it can happen at any time, in no
> specific order."  It depends on the nature of the event.  Some events
> occur at very specific predictable times.  (Total time is one example.
> "OnLoad" type events in GUI programming are another.)
>
> Some events can happen at any time, as you say. ("OnClick" type events
> are an example. These are less common in RPG... but database triggers,
> signal handlers, CEEUTX events, CEE4RAGE events are all event handlers
> that I've coded in RPG.  A more commonplace one might arguably be *PSSR.
>  But, again, this type of event handling is not commonplace in RPG, and
> if you really think about why, it's because other environments primarily
> do it for GUI events.  Note when I say "primarily", I mean MOST of the
> time, not all the of time.)
> </snip>
>
> Gerald Weinberg, in his tome on Systems Design (forget the exact title)
> observed that "In most systems most of the time nothing is happening at
> all."
>
> Jerry C. Adams
> IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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