RE: /FREE RPG compiler errors

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Peter Dow
>
> Perhaps I missed it, but I never saw a reply from you regarding Gary
> Guthrie's probable reasons why %move was not included in /free.

Peter, I've made my views on MOVE known at great length in this list.
Please check through the history.  Rather than rehash that subject, let me
just say that MOVE is absolutely readable to all RPG programmers, and
removing it because non-RPG programmers don't understand it is asking to
removing F-specs, or removing data areas from OS/400 because Unix doesn't
have them.  DUH.


> Also, as Joel mentioned in the %scan thread, why not write your own
> procedure to do the equivalent?  Or should it be a Convert procedure?  In
> fact, to address Gary's objections, probably several procedures:
> CvtNumToChar, CvtCharToNum, CvtCharToDate, etc.  Hmm, not quite the same
> thing, is it?  Still, you'd only have to write them once...

I shouldn't have to rewrite it!  It's ALREADY IN THE LANGUAGE!  If I have
1,000,000 lines of code, I bet 50,000 of them are MOVE instruction.  Why
should I have to rewrite those because some non-RPG programmer can't learn
it?  You tell me I should learn other syntaxes, yet at the same time you say
that I should lose my syntax because other people don't understand it.

Phie I say.

Phie and phooie.

And this is utterly the LAST you will hear from me on this thread.

Joe