Object oriented programming? After all in our world, we have been dealing with "objects" long before the term object-oriented-programming became the "schtick" name for GUI based application development.
I've always wondered why the heck eye-bee-em didn't go after that "native" wise a long time ago...Instead of playing the "looks-like-windows" efforts made in SDA, and making character-based displays sort of pretend to behave like windows. And all the graphical-skin tools that were out there to dress up the 5250 data stream are as good as it's going to get.
Unless they decouple (divorce) the language from the data stream. Can that be done? Won't we have to be able to determine the "type" of display and it's capabilities within the program, to send the "right" data stream to the device? Can't wait to see.
I've always wondered why the heck eye-bee-em didn't go after that "native" wise a long time ago...Instead of playing the "looks-like-windows" efforts made in SDA, and making character-based displays sort of pretend to behave like windows. And all the graphical-skin tools that were out there to dress up the 5250 data stream are as good as it's going to get.
Unless they decouple (divorce) the language from the data stream. Can that be done? Won't we have to be able to determine the "type" of display and it's capabilities within the program, to send the "right" data stream to the device? Can't wait to see.
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