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  3. January 2005

Re: Why RPG IV Sucks


And by the way, what's going to happen to your 6-digit dates nearing the year 2040? It's only a few more years than the age of some of the programs we just changed in 1999! And they can't change the date window for 6-digit dates either! 

(Ducking and bobbing..)

Hindsight and Monday-morning quarterbacks always being superior to the Vince Packards of the world, we could also say they should have done two date data "types" instead of one (six-digit and eight-digit). That way *LOVAL and *HIVAL could have been the same thing for the same data type. But then we would have squawked about that too.

Maybe it's different, but I liked Scott's idea that varying length fields should have been a data type separate from the character type.

But then we can handle it! :-) I'd say the compiler design team and the compiler programmers overall have done pretty good at helping us move forward without breaking old code.

- Alan
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