Re: RPG suggestion

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

So what your saying is that you'd rather work in COBOL:
      if customer-master-found then...
At least we don't burn 40 columns to say EXEC.  ;-)

Joe Teff wrote:

> >> p.s. I really like the new BIFs for file IO, etc.
>
> > Better to have them than not to have them, otherwise still a good chance to
> > create a "chaos code"  ;-)
>
> I don't understand why you would say this. Which is easier to understand?
>
>                  C                            If              *IN99 = *Off
>
> - or -
>                  C                            If              %Found(CustMast)
>
> Chaos is created regularly by testing indicators. I can write code now that is
> essentially self-documenting. I can't do that in RPG III (a.k.a. RPG/400).
>
> Joe Teff
>
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