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> From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV)
>
> > I mean picture this:
>
> Are you implying that this type of directive EVER takes place in a
> end-user shop? I've heard people discuss moving to the free-form syntax
> over a 6 to 12 month period, but I've never heard of this kind of thing,
> as you've suggested, going on. Do you think it does occur? I'd be
> curious to know why someone would give such as order.

Absolutely.  How many shops have had wholesale conversions from RPG III to
RPG IV?  I know of quite a few.  My partners over at Linoma Logic make a
bunch of money from those shops.  Of course, Linoma's tool also converts to
freeform, so I better watch what I say, I might be accused of hucksterism
<smile>.

But even if it's just "all new development must be done in freeform", the
loss of MOVE is just as bad in my mind.  Personally, the inclusion of the
MOVE opcode in the freeform syntax would be so easy that I wonder why it's
not being included.  The only thing I can think of is that the RPG designers
no longer think that MOVE is "hip and cool".  I'm just trying to understand
why that is.

Joe



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