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Subject: Re: RPG hard to learn?
From: dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:10:58 -0400
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"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/29/2017 12:57:55
PM:

It doesn't make sense to hold that against JavaScript.

I don't -- but it is unreasonable to post JavaScript code that
utilizes jQuery and then say that in order to write the same code in RPG
it would take a whole lot more code. The point is that in utilizing
jQuery a lot of JavaScript code is hidden from the programmer and, as a
side issue, the programmer ends up *never* having to learn how to do those
(the things that jQuery can do) for themselves. Do I hold that against
jQuery? No.

The real point is that just because jQuery is available doesn't
make the language, itself, easier -- it only makes it so that the
JavaScript programmer doesn't have to know everything about how to code
DHTML.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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