Re: Is RPG dying

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool, Blake - thanks for confirming this. I'm glad I even remembered it 
reasonably correctly!

Vern

On 2/22/2012 9:52 AM, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Vern,
>
> Windows is still like that at its lowest level. The WinAPI (32/64-bit)
> works the same way today as it always has. MFC, .NET and the new WinRT
> frameworks are all wrappers for the same API, which has its roots in
> 16-bit Windows.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384843.aspx
>
> So ironically, it's my understanding that all the Windows OO wrapper
> libraries resolve down to a procedural C API to this day.
>
> Blake
>
>
>
> date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:22:41 -0600
> from: Vern Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Is RPG dying
>
> Y'all
>
> Ever since I started with VB3 in the mid-90s, I've heard about
> event-driven programming. And I made the leap to, pressing a function
> key is a kind of event - not all that different from pressing a button
> in a GUI - and, hey, if you have PCOMM and turn on hotspots, it IS
> pressing a button in a GUI!!
>
> Windows in those days was a kind of cycle - hey, it really was!! It sent
> messages in a round-robin kind of thing, and whoever could respond, did.
> Events were a kind of message - I'm oversimplifying, of course, but it
> makes enough sense for me.
>
> So a Windows app consisted of a big select-case kind of thing, testing
> what kinds of messages they wanted to process. Seems the same as most of
> the display apps I've seen - run a loop until the F3 event occurs,
> meanwhile process the ones you care about inside the body of the loop.
>
> And RPG is very well-suited for this kind of thing. Even if you DON'T
> turn off the cycle!
>
> Just for thinking about!
> Vern