RE: DDS Support

[booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

And why not?  Smart people are just that-smart and by definition they are 
in the minority.  What they need for their job is a whole lot different 
than what a doofus like me needs.  I need a long learning ramp, small 
changes, and reassurance my world is not going to disappear.  These are 
all foreign concepts to the super-brains around here.  But I have needs 
that have value for RPG too, especially as I am in the vast majority of 
programmers for the AS/400 who are around the "average" ranking. Remember, 
half the AS/400 programmers in the world are below average.

The argument is no different than the old argument that only males that 
are property owners are smart enough to vote.  Well, I ain't smart but I 
didn't vote for Dick Nixon either time.

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"Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
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07/04/2000 11:16 PM
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Why are features added by voting?  Richard Feynman made an appropriate
comment about the 1960s California school book selection process.  Such
things are best done by a few smart people thinking very carefully about 
the
problem and what is needed not by a lot of relatively uninformed people
voting.  Democracy isn't the right technique to select computer language
features.

Richard Jackson
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From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 4:14 PM
To: boldt@ca.ibm.com
Cc: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: DDS Support




On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

>
> Why can't users (I believe you mean programmers) write their own
> opcodes?  Well, strictly speaking, they can.  Study up on
> procedures in ILE RPG.


OK, so I'm writing functions vs. opcodes...Hmmm...not exactly what I had
in mind, but at least I have the flexibility in the functionality...vs.
multi-d arrays, which I don't have at all, and have to emulate...like
functions...Hmmm..could always write a function to return a multi-d cell
content...but nothing like eval x=matx(x,y,z) ** 2 +....

Hans, et al, I think the reason you don't see the request for multi-d
arrays in RPG in "polls" is because MOST RPG programmers don't know what
they are or how to use them.  As has been stated by better minds than
mine, if you were to build this stadium, they just might come to it...:)

What would be interesting is to poll folks if they know how to use
multi-d's and what they are...because I don't think there's much doubt as
to their usefullness and effeciency...

Don

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