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  • Subject: Re: the hoopla over free-form code (was GOTO)
  • From: "L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:43:07 -0600
  • Organization: Datrek Professional Bags

I hate to poke into this discussion but I think maybe (hopefully) the
folks at IBM are doing something smart here.

Why do anything at all to RPG, specifically, why make it a free form
language?
It works very well as is. 

Could it be that the IBMer's are planning to port RPG to the other
platforms where UDB is available? 
If that was the next step then everything would make sense, I mean the
name change and everything.  

I have never written a lexical analyzer, but I would think that code
written in the free format RPG could be very easily proted to C++ or
Java and vice versa.  

A move like this on IBM's part would mean that us RPG dinosaurs could
last through the next ice age.  
I am not saying it will happen, I don't have that much faith in IBM, but
I am saying that it would be cool if it did happen.
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