RE: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well...there's a continuum here, and I didn't want to rant about both ends
at the same time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Shaw [mailto:dshaw1@InfoAve.Net]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 8:18 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>

>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.

Isn't that what COBOL is for? <grin, duck, and run>

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