Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

Hi Blake - I'm with you - your post just happened to be the one I used to reply to! Roll of the dice, eh?

Even though I ranted some, I'm glad to see the vibrancy of this community. So I recommend that these ideas be put into an RFE and/or a COMMON requirement, so that IBM and its Rational group can get them into the queue.

I have to get the new PDF and see just what it IS all really about!

Cheers
Vern

On 10/8/2013 11:34 AM, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hey Vern,

I'm not complaining. I use /free pretty much exclusively, and once we get
the new TR installed, I will more than likely use the new language
features. I am thankful that IBM is still investing in the language and to
those who are enhancing and maintaining it. My point kind of follows
yours: instead of adding, say, OO features to RPG, it might make more
sense to just use what is already in place and well supported on the
system, namely, Java and possibly add additional supporting features to
JTOpen for enhanced DB integration similar to what RPG already has.

If IBM were going to create RPG V, however, one interesting thought might
be to make it JVM language (JRPG?) much like ASNA did with Visual RPG for
the .NET run-time. That might attract new developers to both the language
and system over time. Such a project might be deemed to have an
insufficient ROI for the required investment.

Blake


message: 6
date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:42:15 -0500
from: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

Blake

This isn't a dig at you - it's at the thread and this community!

Sheesh!

What's up? Everyone wants something, IBM delivers a solution, and all (I
know, not everybody) we get is carping at what it is.

Hey, you haven't even seen it in your editors yet - get it loaded, try
it out, so maybe it's not what WE or YOU or I would have done - still,
give it time!

This enhancement was voted almost unanimously as the top priority for
representatives from several cultures - ISVs, CAAC, LUG, CEAC, at least.

And IBM have come through with a solution.

OK, back to my burrow!

Vern