RE: Loop code

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+jt=ee.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of M. Lazarus
| Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:38 PM

| Unfortunately, IBM
| chose this implementation, so the easiest is the use SETLL/READE, so the
| I/O opcodes are compatible.
|
|   -mark

Well, unfortunately IBM does not do one single bit of RPG application
development, I would add.  So they would not appreciate the advantages of
NOT using a SETLL/READE, not one single bit.  Unless this list brought it to
their attention, and this list is more interested in turning RPG into a
clone of C and/or Java, unfortunately.

Jon Paris and I exchanged views on this subject over on M-L last year, and
the fact of the matter remains that this list is a subset of <1000 people
with a given orientation.  And, again unfortunately, there are (according to
figures from Mr. Zollar) roughly 299,000 RPGers that have a largely
different orientation than becoming C and Java gearheads.

Tough set of unintended consequences, that one.