Re: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)

[Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel Fritz wrote:
> 
> 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

This was done several years ago.. It was called "RPG Free" as I
recall...
Roger Pence might be able to shed some light on that subject.. It was
developed by some folks at one of the magazines or one of the authors..

I can't remember all the details, but it was free form RPG... I don't
think it was ever widely accepted by the general community... Somebody
went to a hell of a lot of trouble to do it, then it wasn't used....
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