Re: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

 >> The AS/400 needed a "cool" language, and RPG could have been it in a free
form version.

Sorry but I think you're wrong.  Java on the 400 means that folks who find Java
sexy may find their way to the 400. RPG would never have been sexy to such
people in any form (and certainly not with the RPG/free syntax). In other words
it would only have appealed to existing AS/400 users - and if we couldn't
persuade them, what was the point.


 >> Most of that "majority" couldn't find this list with both hands and a
flashlight

Au contraire, quite a few of the people I include in that category _are_ on this
list.  Like me they personally believed that free-form was the way to go but
(also like me) were convinced that at that point in time it wouldn't fly.  I
won't name them because unlike some people I could mention, I respect the
confidentiality agreements we signed with some of those folks.


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