RE: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah that's right - plus I found the other programmer could actually
understand the code, so I had to make it more difficult !       :-)



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Coulter [SMTP:shc@flybynight.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 4:07 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply
> 
> Hello Neil,
> 
> Yep and when I was hacking rather than designing my old code looked
> like that too!  Most of those tendencies got 
> knocked out of me at IBM.
> 
> Question for you though; Why did you need the subroutines?  Oh! not
> enough indicators to condition the code.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
> 
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> > Date: Thu, 07 May 98 20:28:18 -0600
> > From: "Neil Palmer" <npalmer@NxTrend.com>
> > To: "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply
> 
> > 
> > Hey Simon !
> > I wrote a program back in the 70's that used all indicators 01-99 -
> and
> > I was DAMN proud of it at the time too !    :-), so then you move on
> to
> > KA-KY, U1-U8, OA, OF, OV, etc. etc. - then you start saving them in
> one
> > byte fields and restoring them for subroutines !
> > I think I ran into a problem when I could only AND together 7 lines
> in
> > the calcs ! 
> > It was my first RPG program, and I'd taught myself how to wrote it
> > reading the manuals on the night shift while I was an operator.
> > 
> > 
> > Neil Palmer                                
> 
> 
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