RE: Resistance to change (was free format question)

To put it a slightly different way, Chaucer and George Bush both speak
English but they probably would have a little trouble conversing.  (I
know, Chaucer has been dead for a while. <g>)

There's a baseball joke.  In the fifties an old time player is asked
what he thought Ty Cobb would hit against modern pitching. He answered
"Oh, about .320."  The questioner says: "Oh, you think modern pitchers
are better?" The old time player says: "You've got to remember that Cobb
is over seventy years old."

  

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> Compare the 2005 Corvette with the 1953 one.
> Are they the same car?  No.
> Are they the same name? Yes.
> Do they still carry the same pride of ownership.  Yes.
> Do the drivers of the 2005 still wave to the owners of the
> 1953?  Most likely.
> Do they drool over each others car?  Most likely.
>
> Compare RPGIV with RPGIII.
> Do they both excel at producing reports?  Definitely.
> Can RPGIV do most of what was done in RPGIII?  Yes.
> Is RPGIV as stable as RPGIII?  I believe so.
>
> Just because the syntax has changed, doesn't mean that the
> language has become something other than what it was.  RPG is
> still RPG.  That of course is my own personal opinion which
> is open to flaws based upon the owner of the opinion. :)
>
> But a Vette, is still a Vette.
>
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> In my case, it's not "resistance to change"; if it were
> that, then why am I fluent, to varying degrees, in 3
> assemblers and over a dozen HLLs, in multiple dialetcs?
>
> Likewise, RPG has a highly stylized syntax based on column
> positions, and it also has excellent file I/O, and an
> implicit "DO UNTIL LR IS TRUE" loop surrounding every
> program. If you don't bother learning how to use The
> Cycle, though, then there's little reason for you to be
> using RPG at all
>
> I learnt the cycle but most programs I write and most I have
> seen these
> days do not use it, So if you are on an AS400/iSeries where the
> programming language used is RPG then if you don't use the
> cycle what are
> you supposed to code in?
>
> , and if you take away the
> column-position-based syntax, you may end up with a great
> language, but it has ceased to be RPG.
>
> But isn't that what the numbers at the end are for? To tell
> you its a new
> version? Just because it bears little resemblance to the
> original does not
> mean it is no longer RPG
>
>
> Steve
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