C coding

Thank you Marc and Buck

Much appreciate your feedback.
The key information I am hearing is to use C appropriately and
 in a disciplined manner.
One can then leverage on the existing large C skill-set and
bring on expertise to the IBM i that would not usually be available,
at the same time I would introduce the C experts to the power
and simplicity of RPG and so have a win/win situation all round.

I think I have stumbled onto an interesting avenue to explore.

Thanks to all who have replied.

Regards
Frank

date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:11:48 -0800
from: Marc Hunter <marc-G5HfMHItY0AlJZD/[email protected]>
subject: Re: [C400-L] C coding

We do a lot of C++ coding and primarily benefit from its
cross-compilability between with windows and Linux (if you do it in a
disciplined fashion).  It also allows us to leverage existing tools and
skill sets across the organization.  We even use it for a fair bit of
database access as we've wrapped the SQL api's into a nice reusable
object.  That said - most of the coding in our department is 'tools' coding.

HTH,

Marc


On 2/10/2014 2:45 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:
> On 2/10/2014 4:59 PM, frank kolmann wrote:
>
>> So I am prompted to ask, is anyone doing serious coding in C on the
AS400.
>> And if so what is the application and more interesting to me what style
of
>> C code is being used?
> I have C code in production that I used for ASN.1 serialise/deserialise
> operations.  Also, for socket operations.  Both of these are wrappered
> so that ILE RPG programs can call the functions.
>
> Today I'm not sure I'd recommend using C for sockets; there are plenty
> of RPG examples these days (thanks Scott!)  But there are some
> programming chores which C works well for, AND for which one can find
> examples on the web.
>
> Generally speaking, I do all my IBM i database work in RPG.  I'd use C
> for tool / interface type work.  At home I use C to program PIC
> microprocessors; another chore that uses no database.  ish.
>    --buck
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