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> From: Dan
>
> Joe, I admire your abilities, especially in your PSC/400 product.
>  I think you may have uncovered
> your bias, whether you realize it or not.
>
> /free:  Easy to write, difficult to machine-decipher (unless you
> wrote the compiler, of course!)

Well, you're certainly correct that this is one reason I dislike /free.  But
that's not the reason I don't think it's critical path for developers.

Supporting /free is a matter of using a tokenized version of the source as
opposed to a columnar one.  No huge deal, I hope.  In fact, /free will be
roughly the same effort as COBOL, which is also free-format.  And
incidentally, that work should allow me to handle CL as well.  I'll be okay.

But I still think the removal of the MOVE opcode and the lack of SQL support
and the fact that there are no real new features in /free all combine to
make it more a syntactical rather than an architectural change.

Joe


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