Re: system p announcement

Just a different style than what I use - neither Neanderthalic or
Jetsonic. I used to teach RPG at a community college. The other RPG
instructor was in the Peace Corps way back when, and was stationed in
Africa. He used to teach RPG to the folks there...on paper - he didn't
have a computer. He would assign a problem, they would write the code
on paper, and he would 'compile' it and tell them what their output
would be.

On Nov 8, 2007 7:46 AM, Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah. Kinda Neanderthalic, huh?

It's kinda funny, too, that, when I was writing programs for the S/3, I
usually wrote them in what we called pseudo-code first. Then took that
to RPG II fixed-format. So, for me, free-format RPG is, historically, a
step backwards! .-)

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Michael Ryan wrote:

You write them on paper before keying them in to the editor?

On Nov 8, 2007 7:33 AM, Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now, Walden, it appears that you jumped to the conclusion that I don't
use WDSc. Actually I do (though I still use SEU for CL's and OCL (!).
I just keep forgetting about the auto-complete feature. I think the
problem (or whatever) is that I'm still one of those people that
actually write their programs before typing them, even if they are short
and sweet. I worked with a guy several years ago that could (and did)
key programs directly from his brain to his fingers to SEU. They almost
always worked; I ain't that good.


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Walden H. Leverich wrote:

But I get real cranky if typing those object names when keying a

program

causes me to miss my morning coffee. Just don't see it as a

disadvantage;

been dealing with it for way too many years.

That's because your IDE (SEU <G>) doesn't support auto-complete. When
you're coding in an ide that supports autocomplete typing long names
usually only takes 3 to 6 keystrokes anyway, and it's a hell of a lot
more readable.

-Walden

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