Say what you want... You kind of make my point for me.
Glad that you find the fixed format easy to read and follow.
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Subject: Re: Visual Studio code convert to **free
On 3/18/24 1:33 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
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I can hardly stand reading or deciphering the old fixed format "stuff" we had to deal with.
. . .
That's rather odd:
I'm fluent, to varying degrees (or have been at some time since 1977) in IBM VS-BASIC IBM FORTRAN IV (G1 and WATFIV)
TRS-80 BASIC (Level I, Level II, Disk, Color, and Color Disk)
TRS-80 FORTRAN
CDC Cyber Pascal
CDC Cyber COBOL
CDC Cyber PL/I
CDC Cyber ANSI PL/I
CDC Cyber FORTRAN
DEC Macro-11 Assembler
UT LISP
M$ BASICA/GW-BASIC
M$ QuickBASIC and QBX
8086 Assembler
IBM AS/400 MI
IBM AS/400 RPG (both OPM and ILE)
IBM AS/400 CL (both OPM and ILE)
IBM AS/400 PL/I (OPM PRPQ)
Smalltalk
Java
(I could say something really insulting here.)
And yet, with all that background in languages that are either entirely free-format, or that have only minimally fixed formats (i.e., FORTRAN and COBOL), RPG /FREE looks like pure gibberish to me.
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