Foreign language code samples (e.g. Python) (was:Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures)

Hi Hans,

> (Sorry for posting Python code in an RPG list. But it's easier to
> whip up a Python example to illustrate my point. Don't sweat the
> details - just think of it as "executable pseudo-code".)

I don't mind getting good examples. (If only the RPG manuals were full
of them. Not Python, RPG. (*) ;-)

But really, it is interesting to see such things in whatever it is
along with the explanation of what it does.

I don't think anyone can complain about that.

So i would not only excuse posting of Python/ruby/whatever snippets of
how things are/can be solved in other languages, i feel the urgent
desire of seeing things like that!

That gives a little glimpse in a very short time by a person, who is
able to think and speak in RPG terms. As we all know, these people are
*different*. (And somehow people like you, Hans, and all the others
that made RPG, made us to what we are! Thanks, by the way! :-)

Cheers! :-)

(*) As a BASIC and COBOL programmer from school i went to a company
which was a 100% RPG shop. In about a month, reading only the IBM S/34
RPG manual several times from cover to cover (making dirty the cycle
diagram page :-), and having samples of - from todays view - "not so
perfect" quality, i was able to do the job they wanted me to do. With
todays official manuals, i doubt that i would be able to do that same
thing again. Sure, it's different. Today we have resources like
redbooks available on the internet, and so on. The one thing i
remember at this very moment of a rather good example of working code
in the manual is the weekday function.

-- 
best regards,

Anton Gombkötö
http://www.avenum.com

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