Re: RPG and SQL Compilers

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't vote for full null support myself.  I felt my $100 was spent better
else where.  I did for any anything having to do with improved file I/O such
as the support of DOS types files (forget what they're called this year) and
I/O for the TCP/IP.

To me that's a big one.  Let me get at the data somehow in my program then I
can deal with it one way or the other, without having to jump through hoops
to get it there.

Basically voted for stuff that would give me new functionality, not something 
that
would be nice to have.  Stuff that would be nice to have is just that, nice to
have.  But added functionality is needed.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Buck Calabro wrote:
> 
> David Wright wrote:
> 
> >I am all for new functions, etc...  But I do not like adding redundancy...
> >So far I have not seen any reason to add something like +=.  The existing
> >functionality is just as easy, and IMO more readable anyhow...
> 
> I don't think that adding += was crucial to those who voted for it - it was
> cheap.
> On the other hand, am I the only one who voted for full Null support?
> And I wish, oh I wish for full operational descriptor support, but I
> understand that this one belongs to Rochester, so Mr Farr can't spend my
> money for it even if he wants to.
> 
> And Jon, I understand about different divisions, but I sort of hoped that
> there was a Big Cheese somewhere in IBM who could tell squabblers to "play
> nice."  Ah, well.
> 
> Buck Calabro
> Aptis; Albany, NY
> "Nothing is so firmly believed as
>  that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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