Re: [WDSCI-L] Rexx

["George Farr" <farr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern. Good catch!  Yes Outline view is in 5.0 and we are proud of it. The
presentation has been updated since and infact I am still working on
updating it and adding more of teh version 5.0 additions.
            Stay tuned... I am hoping to finish working on it by end of the
week. I will post another note when I am done and when I replace the
outdated one on the web.
Thanks for pointing this out.


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George N. Farr
iSeries eclipse IDE, iSeries education, and RPG Compilers Development
manager
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Phil

In the presentation at
<
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/as400/products/ad/wdt400/cmn200303/SP15-EclipseToolingForRPGandCOBOL.pdf
>
foil 21, it says "What is yet to come: REXX macros". Right beneath that is
"Outline view support", which seems to be here. This IS your presentation
(with others). It appears to be from 2002.

Just wondering - Vern

At 04:39 PM 5/28/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>There have been a few questions posted about REXX support in WDSC. The
>bottom line is yes, I think
>we could support it as a scripting language for the editor, at least. We
>have it on our list as something
>to evaluate eventually. Some of the tricky areas will be that REXX is not
a
>GUI language, other than
>the one dialog you can use with LINEREAD (and that's not rexx, but lpex).
>That's why in CODE we were
>moving more towards Java, although it was bold-on support there (eg, all
>static methods that used JNI
>to talk to the editor which is written in C), and now that the editor is
>written in Java and lives in an
>extensible IDE written in Java ...  well, you get the point.
>
>However, Jon is somewhat correct some of the time :-). Yes, Java being a
>rich and typed language
>can be more verbous than REXX which is loosely typed and designed for
>simple scripting requirements,
>which in fact is a large percentage of what we do when writing editor
>extensions. While taking the time
>to learn the eclipse Java APIs and the JLpex Java APIs is a great
strategic
>plan, and a good excuse
>to learn Java before re-writing payroll, we do recognize a simpler
>scripting language is important for the
>out of box experience. "Its on our list" is all I can say, and the recent
>flurry of discussion on it has helped
>its priority.
>
>Phil Coulthard, iSeries AD,  IBM Canada Ltd. coulthar@xxxxxxxxxxx


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