RE: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems to me that the big problem with C (as far as maintainability and
readability, we won't talk about pointers and memory management) is a nut
behind the wheel one.  It's what I call the vice of terseness--the desire to
compress the largest number of program instructions into the smallest amount
of source even when being more verbose would create executable code that
looks exactly the same as the terse version.

I like the free form idea, but I wouldn't mind being protected from
terseness abuse.



-----Original Message-----
From: boothm@ibm.net [mailto:boothm@ibm.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 1:57 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?


It isn't baffling to me.  While I like the idea of a CF spec I will be
quick to also say that I have a recurring nighmare of seeing RPG
metamorphise into some sort of C.  Having seen and had to work with code
from 10+ years ago I now realize that today's hot idea can become next
decade's trivia test.   (WSU anyone?)   

I can see free-from becoming some sort of mystical incantation, project
like getting the apostrophes right in an OPNQRYF select.


In <bbb1fc36.249a9250@aol.com>, on 06/17/99 
   at 02:02 PM, Gwecnal@aol.com said:

> the 'lets 
>not do free form' decision has always been a mystery.  I cannot think of,
>and  have never heard, a single cogent argument against free form.  It is
>utterly  baffling.

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