"wasn't used"???
I STILL use RPG/free to maintain some old stuff -- stuff that will be
trashed soon to be replaced by an application written in VB.
But I LOVE(d) RPG/free. What a blast. I can STILL remember my "discussions"
with Jon "we can't drag the customers kicking and screaming into free-format
RPG" Paris about this subject. Wow ... those were some fun days.
Gotta run; I'm putting in an application at McDonalds to flip burgers.
Peace,
-- Don "Not an expert in Java ... yet" Schenck
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barber [mailto:MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 6:16 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L
Subject: Re: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)
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....
+---
| 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
+---
