Re: RPG vs. C

** Reply to message from Kris Ball <skmug1@pld.com> on Sun, 10 May 1998
17:51:04 -0500

> I agree.  I took a C class, and one of the programs we wrote was to delete a
> record from a file.  Hello?  I can program that function in 1 line of code in
> RPG.   But it is valuable for me to explore other languages and expand the
same
> old programming methods I sometimes fall back on.

Hmm, can you let me know what you use to delete a record in RPG? It has always
taken me two statements (CHAIN, DELETE) and now with standards that disapprove
of left hand indicators, I tend to use four (CHAIN, IFNE *ON, DELETE, ENDIF).

> 
> So now I'm learning Java, and what do you know?  Those C classes were a good
idea
> after all!

Pretty similar, eh? But no pointer junk.

> Kris Ball        mailto:krisball@dodgecity.net



Chris Rehm                                                    
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