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  3. March 2010

Re: More on RPG style

Bryce Martin wrote:
I prefer the C style of != personally. Since almost every other language I've code in it was !=. RPG is the first one I've seen that is <> which feels very strange when first starting out coming from C/C++ background.

BASIC (and its progeny), and (I think) Pascal and the other ALGOLs use <>.

If I remember right, PL/I is odd, in that it uses the EBCDIC negation sign with =.

FORTRAN doesn't use conventional symbols; it uses, as I recall, combinations of letters and periods.

I don't remember what COBOL uses

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JHHL

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