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Gee, Hans, you're a brave person. I suspect I'm not the only one who has "brilliant and simple" suggestions.<g> I don't know how hard it would be to change the compiler to do it, but I think RPG would be much "cooler" if the positional syntax weren't mandatory. EVAL is an improvement, but I want to jump off the edge and write stuff like: if a = TRUE exsr(b) else exsr(c) endif -----Original Message----- From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 7:00 AM To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com Subject: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret) eric wrote: > You can't teach something that student's don't want to learn (or attend). > "RPG isn't cool". > I'd be the last person to try to argue against that. To illustrate, compare CGI programming in RPG versus Perl. Now, let's assume that being "cool" is a desirable quality in a programming language. If we were to try to change RPG from an "uncool" language to a "cool" language, is there a single easy thing we could do to improve the language? Cheers! Hans Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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