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  3. January 2013

Re: truncating a decimal value in /Free


On 1/14/13 7:33 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:
My ex-boss, who was a VB and .Net programmer, never could (he said)
understand RPG. Once I came on board and started using free form, he could
and did help debug RPG code. As a Math major, he liked the fact that a
complicated formula could be contained in a single line, rather than 2-n
lines in fixed format.
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I once converted some 22 lines of RPG to one statement in Basic for the IBM System-23.

The S-23 compiler threw it back out saying it was "too complex". :)

I would not do that today though. You can't put too much into a formula or calculation or condition. Take it easy on the next guy. It might be you...


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