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Old school RPGer, young programmers (independent of whether they are RPGer
or not) all know SQL and Regular Expressions 😉
Do most programmers really understand regular expressions? Especially when
they encounter them in somebody else's code? For me, one-liners are hard to
understand. I've struggled with dyslexia since childhood, which may be part
of the problem.
As an alternative to nested one liners, I much prefer viewing and using
procedure calls. If you really need to understand what the procedure is
doing under the covers, then look at that source (which preferably is not a
nested one liner).
SQL expressions may be fine if your program needs the full SQE for other
work. Otherwise you may be using a steamroller to kill a gnat. Binding to a
service-program procedure is so much more efficient.
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