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  • Subject: RE: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)
  • From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:05:55 -0700

I guess irony and hyperbole don't work well in print.  Should've said I'd
like free form source entry and left it like that.  I think Hans was brave
to ask for suggestions for improvement; it's not the sort of thing I like to
bring up with end users unless it's mandatory.  (The part of the previous
sentence that follows the semicolon was intended to be interpreted as an
attempt at humor.)

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The above is my personal opinion and is not intended to represent good
programming practice or the product of a sound mind.

Joel Fritz 

-----Original Message-----
From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. [mailto:rbruceh@ibm.net]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 11:40 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)


Joel Fritz wrote:
> 
> Gee, Hans, you're a brave person.  I suspect I'm not the only one who has
> "brilliant and simple" suggestions.<g>
> 
> I don't know how hard it would be to change the compiler to do it, but I
> think RPG would be much "cooler" if the positional syntax weren't
mandatory.
> EVAL is an improvement, but I want to jump off the edge and write stuff
> like:
> 
> if a = TRUE
>   exsr(b)
>         else
>                 exsr(c)
> endif
> 

Yeah, Hans, *real* brave.

OK, let's see...

if a = true
  perform b
else
  perform c
end-if
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