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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:39 AM, <thomas.raddatz@xxxxxx> wrote:
For example from the day when IBM introduced procedures with V3, I
wonder why we have to use P specs to start/end a procedure and D specs for
the procedure interface. Using only P specs whould have been a lot easier
and clearer (at least for me):
Braces and combining the P and D specs would be nice. But it is just
syntactical sugar ( a term Anders Hejlsberg uses ). Consider that a code
editor could easily put those elements in the language. Or a pre compiler.
I can argue that IBM should focus on improving the pre compiler, making it
easier to integrate with the debugger. Once that is done then anyone could
produce their own version of RPG that had braces and a simpler procedure
declaration.
What is really needed in the language is references, reference counting and
garbage collection. Once you have that then you can have the various types
of collections that you see in .NET ( when variables are addressed by
reference they can be placed in collections without having to copy their
contents. ) Once you have full featured collections like dynamic arrays,
linked lists, etc you can move on to morphing a collection into a database
and vice versa. Where you order by a collection the same way you order by a
table, or join a table to a collection.
-Steve
midrange.com
