Re: RPGle - i wish i could do some 'Reflection'

On 10/30/2013 12:25 PM, Charles MARTIN wrote:

De : rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de John Yeung

Yeah. Use another language. RPG, even in its most advanced incarnation, really doesn't make this easy. Possible, of course. But you're swimming upstream if you're doing it in RPG.

Well, I try to build tools for my team of rpg programmers.
They could learn a new language. This means a lot of time learning, which is good, but cost a lot.
Another language is still an option.
I am now trying to see where we can go, how much abstraction I can give to my programmers.
Can I give it to them in rpgle ? I did nice things so far.
I want to build tools that allows them to do more stuff with less code. (better code, less bugs, better reading)
That could sound insane, but I even considered building a new language with a better syntax I could compile in rpgle or in a module.

This is for the lurkers and the archives more than you Charles. With
ILE, we can write a service program that uses multiple languages. In
one service program I could have source in Java, RPG and C if I like.
If it turns out that holding an XML structure in memory is easier in C,
I'd do it in C, and provide functions that my RPG colleagues could use.

My colleagues would not know or care that the service program has C
source, or Java, or RPG.
--buck