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My main argument is that if a particular source format is part of a
programming language's identity (e.g., the columnar format of RPG, the
"Statements start at Column 7, continuation is indicated in Column 6, C
for comment in Column 1, labels in 1-5" format of FORTRAN, the "all
lines are numbered, numbers serving both as sequencing and as labels"
format of BASIC, &c.), the format can certainly EVOLVE to a certain
extent (e.g., OPM RPG to ILE RPG) without fundamentally violating the
language's identity, but if that format is discarded entirely (e.g., RPG
to /free, BASIC to QBASIC, FORTRAN to Control Data's FTNTS format), then
*it ceases to be the same language* and should be called something
different (e.g., I've used, and most definitely LIKE, the QBASICs, but I
flatly refuse to call any of them "BASIC").
My other argument is that if you aren't using a language's core features
(e.g., The Cycle, and/or extremely close integration with native
record-level access, for RPG), then you might not be using the best
language for the task at hand.
--
JHHL
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Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG, (continued)
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