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"Lim Hock-Chai" wrote:
- You are comparing a common syntax in C that a C programmer must know to write a C program with a featurein RPG that most RPG programmers try to avoid.
Not at all. In both cases, if you aren't aware of that particular language characteristic, it WILL come back to bite you.
More to the point, as a mixed-language programmer, who spent 5 years at the University getting a Bachelor of Science degree that *required* work in FORTRAN, Pascal, PL/I, and PDP-11 Assembler, who took electives in COBOL and LISP, who also had 2 years of BASIC in high school, and who is self-taught in 8086 Assembler, C, Modula-2, MI, RPG, and CL, if I know anything about programming, I know:
SELECT YOUR LANGUAGES ACCORDING TO THEIR STRENGTHS, NOT THEIR WEAKNESSES, AND CODE TO THOSE STRENGTHS.
If you're going out of your way to avoid The Cycle, then perhaps RPG isn't the best available language for the problem at hand.
-- JHHL
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