RE: the hoopla over free-form code (was GOTO) -- RPG400-L

Title: RE: the hoopla over free-form code (was GOTO)

ROTFLMAO!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric DeLong [mailto:Eric.DeLong@pmsi-services.com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 2:39 PM
To: "RPG400-L@midrange.com"
Subject: RE: the hoopla over free-form code (was GOTO)

     LOL!

     ***NEWS FLASH***

     McDonalds has announced the development of RPG for Java today in
     response to IBM's announcement that all RPG programmers should
     learn Java or become burger flippers. "McDonalds has no use for
     these legions of RPG programmers", so in an effort to preserve
     their labor structure, they have developed RPGfree/Java.
     "Hopefully, this will satisfy both IBM and the RPG developers. This
     product has been developed by a team of sixteen year old
     burger-flippers in an attempt to protect their futures within the
     McDonalds organization."

     Critics of this project note that this version of RPG is not
     backward compatible with IBM's version of free format RPG, due to
     the lack of statement terminators and the support of the GOTO
     statement. All inquiries should be addressed to Billy, lead
     developer and shift-leader, McDonalds #3514.

     <laying low>
     eric.delong@pmsi-services.com

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Subject: Re: the hoopla over free-form code (was GOTO)
Author: "L. S. Russell" <SMTP:leslier@datrek.com> at EXCHANGE
Date:    11/6/00 1:43 PM

I hate to poke into this discussion but I think maybe (hopefully) the
folks at IBM are doing something smart here.

Why do anything at all to RPG, specifically, why make it a free form
language?
It works very well as is.

Could it be that the IBMer's are planning to port RPG to the other
platforms where UDB is available?
If that was the next step then everything would make sense, I mean the
name change and everything.

I have never written a lexical analyzer, but I would think that code
written in the free format RPG could be very easily proted to C++ or
Java and vice versa.

A move like this on IBM's part would mean that us RPG dinosaurs could
last through the next ice age.
I am not saying it will happen, I don't have that much faith in IBM, but
I am saying that it would be cool if it did happen.
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