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I had to write Fortran and PL/1 on punch cards for a time, which fortunately for me did not last long, but never RPG. I kept some of that old source just for posterity, but even that is now long gone.
Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
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-----Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/02/2015 12:26PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.5 announcement
Have heard of Word-Wrap? <smirk>
Why be tied to 60-year-plus 80-column old punch cards??? That every RPG Developer I know has NEVER used punch cards!
Sorry, I don't know any fossil-type that wrote RPG code on Punch Cards. That was WAY BEFORE my time! Thank goodness!
Speak of which, does the LPEX editor have a way to turn on Word-Wrap like other editors?
Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Word, NotePad++, just to name a few that has word-wrap. Do we have that in RDi? I can't find it.
For XML documents, I use the horizontal scroll bar. Which is okay, I guess.
I would love a ZOOM in/out on the LPEX Text size. But, I know there is already a PFE out there for that. Maybe in next decade, we might get that. <grin>
-Ken Killian-
-----Original Message-----
Vern, I'm all for the idea of more than 80, but if I ever had to read code statements longer than about 120, I'd require a wrap-around panoramic monitor (the single 21" flat screen just wouldn't cut it). Let's keep it within a comfortable field of view, please. Just because we can doesn't mean we should.
Michael Koester
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