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Jim,
At 1/2/04 05:00 PM, you wrote:
The cycle contains processing and logic, so that processing and logic is
concealed from view. It's not hard to put it back in view, and it enhances
readability. If you're not working in an exclusive RPG shop readability is
going to be much more important.
I think that we're going to have to agree to disagree here. The standard
things that the language does for you are the *strengths*, not the
weaknesses of the language.
The same argument that you've made against RPG can be made against
SQL. Or any OO language. Not only that, but SQL is more difficult to
debug. The "novice can figure out what's doing in language X" argument is
not a valid reason to make a technique decision, IMHO. When you're
interviewing or assigning a programmer for a task, I'm assuming that you
pick the best one for the task, not just a warm body that might or might
not be able to figure out what's going on. That requires an intimate
knowledge of the language.
-mark
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