RE: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"

Just for the record: The idea here that I don't like progress is, as I said
silly. I am the first to abandon the old crap for new stuff. I never use
data areas, I hardly use arrays, although there are some very good uses for
the even today, I mostly use the EVAL and the new EVALR operation. I love
the new stuff. If we had a way to do display formats in Java I'd leave DDS
in a minute.

Bob Cozzi

http://www.RPGIV.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Dan Bale
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 5:38 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"
>
>
>
>
> Bob,
>
> (re: The thread that never ends.  Sigh!)
>
> >>If I (as a developer, not just me but others) can completing
> disregard the
> CF spec and still use ALL new function in RPG IV, then I could
> consider the
> notion. However I believe that some developer will sit in a room,
> have a few
> free minutes and put stuff into RPG IV that only works on the CF-spec. At
> tha point, the CF-spec becomes it's own language, no longer RPG IV.<<
>
> I think you've been on too many planes, sitting next to too many crying,
> screaming kids!  ;-)
>
> Bob, just a guess here, but do you still code all your string
> handling routines
> using arrays?  You know, those subroutines to concatenate city,
> state, and zip
> into one line?
>
> I didn't think so.
>
> (Now I'm really, REALLY done with this thread!  Really!  No more!
>  I'm done!)
>
> - Dan Bale
>
>
>
>
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