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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:05 PM Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yea but string concating is slow, extremely error prone and very difficult
to read.
But your method of using your own homegrown, half-baked, ad hoc
templating minilanguage is "slow, extremely error prone and very
difficult to read" compared to a proper interpolation/templating
feature.
My point is, any argument based on "yeah, my way might not be AS nice,
but it's Nice Enough For Me (and thus should be nice enough for
everyone)" is not really a valid argument. Plenty of people find RPG
III much more than Good Enough already. To those people, why bother
wasting SO MUCH time, effort, and resource on RPG IV? No doubt there
are some (not many, but...) who find assembly language plenty good
enough. They can make the argument that, assuming they are really good
at it, their code produces smaller and faster executables than a
bloated monster like RPG III, so why do people waste so much effort
building so-called high-level languages?
John Y.
midrange.com
