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  3. February 2006

Re: worst RPG ever seen?

Early on I was taught to define an indicator and use it for only one purpose. I remember the great revelation of defining an indicator as a temporary indicator so it could be used two different places, for two different purposes. This was a huge boost, right up there with the introduction of GOTO. 

Douglas Handy wrote:

David,

Many moons ago I worked on some RPG II code that used every numeric

indicator, all the Ux indicators, and a few of the Hx indicators



Back in 1980, I had a programmer come to me with a similar program (also a
Workstn program using the RPG II cycle on a S34).  He had used all 99
indicators, U1-U8, L1-L9, and H1-H9 but couldn't figure out why he wasn't
allowed to use M1-M9 as indicators too since he still "needed" more of them.

Even worse, this guy had won some "structured programming technique" award
at his vo-tech school though I never understood why.  Maybe it was an
obfuscation award.  :)

Doug

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