Re: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

>Doug, it's an opinion, I guess.  You base yours on the fact that you
>commonly misunderstand the MOVE instruction.  Somehow, I always managed to
>figure it out.  In fact, junior programmers managed to figure it out.

No, I never said *I* misunderstood them.  In fact, you are the one who got the
MOVEL to the %subst() wrong in this example.

But I don't fully understand MOVEs without knowing the attributes of the
operands.  And that is *not* the case with the eval alternative.

In that context, it is MOVE which is "hidden or secret", ie arcane, and arcane
was the word you chose; not me.

>In fact, this entire argument that MOVE is hard to understand is probably
>the silliest thing I ever heard.  If you came into my office looking for a
>job and told me that the MOVE instruction was "confusing" I'd send you
>packing.

I never said they were confusing or that I didn't understand them.  Do I think
junior programmers can learn the nuances of MOVE?  Sure.  They MUST do so.  But
I don't consider a virtue of RPG that MOVE permits the things it does.

But I think it is time to let this thread die.  You keep attributing statements
to me which I did not make.

Doug