Re: RPG hard to learn? -- RPG400-L

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<Chuckle> Bad example Steve - it couldn't be much easier ...

sorta array(*).key;

But as was noted earlier - the OP's question concerned how hard RPG was to learn. Not whether it was easier to perform certain tasks. And it is easy to learn.

Jon Paris

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On Jun 29, 2017, at 1:49 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:25 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Easier to solve problem X in language Y than in language Z" is a very
different proposition than "easier to learn language Y versus learning
language Z".

I think the two issues are closely related. How do you teach someone to
sort a data struct array in RPG? It is easier to both do the sort and
teach it in a full featured language like javascript or Swift.
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