Re: What do you call the new freeform RPG?

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Someone else may have a better memory than me Jerry - but if I recall correctly what he did was to license and existing text editor and add the syntax checkers etc. for RPG and his free-form flavour.


On 2014-04-22, at 11:46 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Paul even had a version for RPG II, though I think Julian Monypenny actually
> wrote that version.  If I recall correctly (heaven knows at this st/age) I
> even wrote an article about it for Midrange Computing.  One of the few
> things that I remember is that you could define your own tokens.  I liked to
> define null tokens so that I could code things like:
>
> 	CHAIN using KEYS to FILEA
>
> Where 'to' and 'using' were null tokens.  Verbose, I know.
>
> Paul even had an IDE that ran on the PC that encompassed RPG II/III/Free
> syntax.  Never got around to writing that article, but it was pretty
> revolutionary for its time.  Again can't remember the details (this was late
> 80's or early 90's) but it probably didn't have all of the bells and
> whistles of RDp.
>
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> Paul Conte had an RPG III pre-compiler that used a form of free format -
> can't recall if it went beyond calcs. Came out during the run up to the
> announcement of RPG IV.
>
>
> On 2014-04-21, at 8:13 AM, "Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2)"
> <TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Furthermore, didn't someone come out with a pre-compiler called RPG 
> > FREE before RPG became officially free format?
> >
> > Trevor Briggs
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> > [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
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> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Scott Klement 
> > <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I also never use the phrase "RPG free".  [...] The phrase "RPG free" 
> > > sounds too much like "RPG III" and since "RPG free" is not an 
> > > official name, you always have to ask for clarification of what it 
> > > means.
> >
> > In addition to that, in this day and age of open source and free 
> > software, "RPG free" sounds like it could either be a watered-down 
> > no-additional-cost version of RPG from IBM/Rational, or a third-party 
> > free reimplementation of RPG (potentially for platforms other than the 
> > i).
> >
> > John
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