: Tobias Leicher <tobias.leic...@de.ibm.com>
> Date: 16/02/2018 20:38
> Subject: Re: Solution OOP in HLASM
>
> Thanks Tobias. You bring up perception rather than reality. There
> are several OOP languages and they all implement OOP so that it best
> fits into that language.
Ze'ev and Richard, These are certainly good examples of using OOP in HLASM but
they are a little difficult to explain how they relate to the tenets of OOP.
Remember that it's the language that supports OOP in a way it chooses to
support it. E.g. methods in C++ are usually functions.
As a
OOP is extremely easy to use. It's the unnecessary terminology that makes it
difficult. I believe wholeheartedly that HLASM and MVS are OOP but simply never
justified using the terminology C programmers so strongly need. There are
several people in this group who believe the opposite. I would
JonYou could create objects in HLASM, as the other gentleman demonstrated with
a real life example of a session manager. If we define objects as some entity
that could be probed in runtime, then by all means you could do that in HLASM.
I am not a great fan of oo languges as they tend to stand
-- reformatted message -- sorry I forgot to make it readable by this group.
> Seymour Metz wrote:
> Well, I've been programming since 1960, have used everything
> from Assembler (D) to HLASM, write macros at the drop of a hat
> and have consistently defended the use of assemblers, but
> I have
> Seymour Metz wrote:
> Well, I've been programming since 1960, have used everything > from Assembler
> (D) to HLASM, write macros at the drop of a hat > and have consistently
> defended the use of assemblers, but> I have to disagree with you.
> While there is a good deal of theology in the
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Subject: Re: Solution OOP in HLASM
Real HLASM OOP follows. Real HLASM programmers will understand why I said
called certain people are incompetent when say things like "you can't HLASM OOP
without jumping thru hoops", "another gem from Jon" and "doesn't und
Real HLASM OOP follows. Real HLASM programmers will understand why I said
called certain people are incompetent when say things like "you can't HLASM OOP
without jumping thru hoops", "another gem from Jon" and "doesn't understand
OOP". Clearly they only know basic HLASM but believe they are
