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IMHO: Is RPG Free-Form a Cat in Tiger's Clothes?
Joe, you just rekindled some memories. When I was doing my diploma in Web development a few years ago, I was told by my instructor that he did not expect me to learn polymorphism, but maybe have some idea as it is part of the c++ course. When I completed all my assignments, he was disturbed and it occured to me that in his days of schooling it might have been difficult for him. He then challenged me for Linked Lists saying no one was able to compelte these assignments and I did it! Before you call me a genius, let me tell you that I am a pathetically low paid application developer who drives a leased Honda, lives in a rented three bed room home and has a four didgit bank balance. My brother says in North America a person's intelligence is judged by his net worth, so I am officially a retard. You, the author of Step by Step books, should know that many things in our trade are overhyped myths like the Websphere. It is a matter of opportunity to lay hands on it, before they are demystified. I admit I never used Polymorphism in RPG but I know I can atleast change pointers to point to different procedures. Yes I do prefer Data Structures over C spec move+movel to concatenate. I would also prefer an alpha to num conversion thru %int instead of the invisible move. In short, I would shift from C spec to D spec as much as possible. Probably because I started in Cobol and have the 70's Cobol mentality of prefering Data Divison over Procedure Division. As for the problem of flipping pages, I also prefer as many independant procedures as possible. Again maybe a C mentality.
Joe, you just rekindled some memories. When I was doing my diploma in Web development a few years ago, I was told by my instructor that he did not expect me to learn polymorphism, but maybe have some idea as it is part of the c++ course. When I completed all my assignments, he was disturbed and it occured to me that in his days of schooling it might have been difficult for him. He then challenged me for Linked Lists saying no one was able to compelte these assignments and I did it! Before you call me a genius, let me tell you that I am a pathetically low paid application developer who drives a leased Honda, lives in a rented three bed room home and has a four didgit bank balance. My brother says in North America a person's intelligence is judged by his net worth, so I am officially a retard. You, the author of Step by Step books, should know that many things in our trade are overhyped myths like the Websphere. It is a matter of opportunity to lay hands on it, before they are demystified. I admit I never used Polymorphism in RPG but I know I can atleast change pointers to point to different procedures. Yes I do prefer Data Structures over C spec move+movel to concatenate. I would also prefer an alpha to num conversion thru %int instead of the invisible move. In short, I would shift from C spec to D spec as much as possible. Probably because I started in Cobol and have the 70's Cobol mentality of prefering Data Divison over Procedure Division. As for the problem of flipping pages, I also prefer as many independant procedures as possible. Again maybe a C mentality.
If the need-for-speed necessiates MOVE, our very own Bob Cozzi has proved that functions like memcpy are much faster. I tried that. I hate Bob's stand on /free but other than that, he is a genuine proven time-tested guru.
However I finally won the battle, just need to win the war. The senior architech of the consulting company audited my code and gave a go ahead signal with only the best words to say about my style and coding methods. Consulting companies normally dont do that and always like RPGIII style coding in the name of "Backward Compatibility". I apologize if I unintentionally sounded berating you.
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