Re: MAIN and LR

A structured programming language vs a Object Oriented Programming

language

Alan,

All (most?) OO lamguages are ALSO structured.
A structured language, e.g. Java, is one with "structured" language
constructs, like for/while and if..else.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A structured programming language vs a Object Oriented Programming
language.

ILE/RPG is a structured programming language.

http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/definition/structured-programming


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Please define Structured. Do you mean, positionally structured, or
something else?

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We can't get anyone on this machine to use ILE/RPG. How the hell are
you going to get them use PL/I?

I think ILE/RPG is a superb language or at least for a structured
language.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:32 AM, James Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Campin wrote:

The MAIN says do not bind the RPG cycle. You could not use an IP

with

a Main program because it does not have an RPG cycle. IF is under
your control and is valid in a MAIN program.

The MAIN keyword is just acknowledging a reality that has been true
for 20 years. 99.9% of the programs that we write do not use the
cycle so why add the overhead to a program to run it when we don't

use it.

To which I've always responded (if not necessarily in such a
conciliatory manner), "If you're not writing a Cycle program
(conventional or unconventional), then is RPG necessarily the best
language for the job?"

Sometimes it is; sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it's just the only
language available. And why bother with all this "/free" bovine scat
to make RPG look like PL/I, when it would have made more sense to
upgrade the PL/I compiler from a crude OPM subset PRPQ to a full
ILE-based implementation with full access to bound calls,

STDIN/STDOUT, and so forth?

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