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Re: RPG

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Vernon Hamberg
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Crazy quirks? (See John's statement below) Semicolons?

Let's see, languages like C, Pascal, Algol, Ada, PL/I, et al, used
semicolons to indicate the end of a line - and Javascript today can use them
although optional, last I looked.

Not so crazy anytime, methinks!

No, you have missed my point entirely. None of those languages
requires semicolons FOR THE IF AND ELSE STATEMENTS.

And THAT is where I keep forgetting them in free format RPG.
(Similarly for other block-opening statements.)

At the time that I was first learning RPG, my single favorite and most
comfortable language was C. My favorite and most comfortable language
before that was Pascal. So trust me, the requirement for semicolons ON
THOSE LINES is very, very disorienting, awkward, ugly, and hard to
force yourself to do.

John Y.

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