Re: RPG hard to learn?

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/28/2017 04:23:27
PM:

there is just so much more work the programmer has to do in RPG than

other

languages.

here is some javascript code. Think of how much RPG would be needed to
code the same thing.

catLookup_GetHtml( lookupSource, prCatNum, function( htmlText )
{
var elem = $(htmlText) ;

var pos = {
my: "left+50 top+50",
at: "left top",
of: elem
} ;
var parms = { height:500,
title:'Select Product Category',
close: dialog_Close,
width:550, position:pos } ;
$(elem).dialog( parms )
.prev(".ui-dialog-titlebar").css("background","yellow");
}) ;

You might fool some with that, but do you actually know how much
JavaScript code is behind that $ function you threw in there so casually?
We're talking thousands of lines of JavaScript code. You can achieve the
same encapsulation using RPG service programs.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark