Re: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]

I see, so it's all about, we don't care if it doesn't do what everyone thinks
it should do, they'll find out it doesn't when their answers come out wrong.

I've pretty much said all I'm going to say on this subject, but know this,
I will always consider the eval statement to be the weakest part of RPG
when it could of been the strongest.  I will not trust any of the new things
to come out of IBM in way of RPG, including any new BIFs they come
out with, because who knows how they think things should work, obviously
they don't use them in the real world.

The real world says you do things as they are written.  If  you don't give
the result that is expected, you better have a darn good reason for it, and
IMO RTFM is not a good reason.

When one thing is screwy in a compiler I take a very close look at it and
decide if I want to continue using it.  If two things are wrong, I throw it away
and get something that works.  If it was my choice, we wouldn't use RPG
anymore because of RTFM attitude and RPGs divergence away from solid
programming techniques.  Unfortunately it's not my choice.

It appears to be IBMs decision to try to make RPG as hard to understand
and use as they can.  And they're starting to do a very good job of it.

Regards,

Jim Langston

> Are you really trying to defend someone who writes a program that doesn't
> even bother to "desk check" the calculations to see if they are correct?
> Anyone that does that deserves to be spanked.
>
> Joe Teff

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