RE: Gary's Opinion on /free

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Gary Guthrie
>
> Good! I'm glad you didn't think that *** I *** was implying those things
> (i.e., that people who didn't use free-format were lazy, stupid, etc.)
> you were talking about.

Nope.  I thought you were at first, and I think you may have come off that
way to a few people other than me.  Now, though, I just think your opinion
is based on experiences different than that of me and my client base, which
is why I declined further debate.

My largest concern has always been the legacy users, and there are things
about the /free implementation that have made it difficult for them to
embrace /free as easily as they were able to move from RPG III to RPG IV.
These implementation decisions make up the bulk of the things I dislike
about /free.  The other things are primarily syntactical, and so of less
import.

Joe