Re: Todays WTF

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Except for the favorable comments, most seem to be either by people who 
have never used RPG (any variant) or in relation to RPG II. 

While working on my MBA (mid-70's), I had to take a systems analysis 
course.  The professor once had me and another guy (who was forced to 
take an RPG II class and hated it) debate the virtues (pro and con) of 
RPG II.  The hater went first knocking the fixed-format specs, the short 
field names, and concluded by saying something along the lines that 
"even my mother could program in this."  His main comparison points were 
with Cobol.  When it came my turn (for rebuttal), I opened and concluded 
with, "He made all of my points for me" and sat down.  BTW, I aced the 
course; don't know what the other guy made.  And the professor tried to 
hire me for his consulting business.


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Steve Richter wrote:
> what these other programmers who have had to work with rpg code may be
> reacting to is all the global variables and parameterless subroutines used
> in a lot of RPG code. the goto is seen by everyone as bad practice.  but the
> subroutine is just as bad.  RPG is not as bad as COBOL because COBOL
> code also redefines its global variables.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> On 8/10/07, M.Effenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx <M.Effenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Hi there,
> > in case you haven't seen it already: There is an article on the daily wtf
> > page about RPG today.
> >
> > http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/The-Other-Kind-of-RPG.aspx
> >
> > It's quite interesting to read the comments :)
> >
> > - Martin
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