[Gambas-user] OT:Very nice compliments for gambas :))

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 17:06, Hans-Martin Bundeshund wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 24. August 2004 22:25 schrieb Michael Sullivan:
> > Text has to be entered in specific column positions?  Sounds like RPG
> > (unfortunately it has nothing to do with popular games like Final
> > Fantasy.)  I had to take a semester of RPG at college a few years ago.
> > It was easy, sort of.  It seemed mostly stupid, since I also learned VB
> > and COBOL at that college  I really hated the column restriction
> > though...
>
> Yes, it is RPG. Far as I know there were 3 big evaluation steps: RPG,
> RPGIII and ILE-RPG.
>
> Easy is relative. It is a bit comparing to assembler. For example the
> 'move'- or 'cmp'-commands are used in this way: (20|21|22 are some
> flags/boolean which can be on or off, dependimg on the result of the
> CoMPare-comand, or set by a move-command: *on move *IN20)
>
>
> 0815  C         1                 MOVE           MYVAR    1 0
> 0816  C         MYVAR         CMP             1                 202122
> 0817  C 20     0                 Z-ADD          MYVAR
>
> which means:
>
> MYVAR as Integer
> IN20 as Boolean
>
> MYVAR = 1
> If MYVAR = 1 Then
>  IN20 = TRUE
> ENDIF
>
> If IN20 = TRUE Then
>  MYVAR = 0
> ENDIF
>
> Since a few year there is an 'eval'-command. You can use it like:
>
> 0815  C                   EVAL     MYVAR = 0
>
> This is a great feature in ILE-RPG  ;)
> And You can use embedded SQL, but very uncomfortable. Each field has to be
> declared in the programm header before. Using a SQL-join with 30 fields is
> not that fun. All output must be written to a file. There are display-files
> for the dialoge, printer-files for printing or spoolfiles for storing and
> viewing/printing the data. All that files have to be compiled before you
> can link them into your RPG-Programm.
>
>
> Sorry of to be such OT and sorry for whining, but only for you lucky people
> out there, who don't know that some of us must use some real horrobly
> programming language and enviroments nearly all day. (The most time I have
> to fix or dilate old programms (up tol 15 years old). I want to rewrite
> them, but this is undisired)  ;))
>
> HM
>
>

You could write sort of compiler that would transform sort of higher level 
language in RPG :-)

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Benoit Minisini
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