Re: An odd thing

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John

At 10:56 PM 12/11/97 -0500, you wrote (most [un]wittingly):
>
>
>RE:    Re: An odd thing
>
>>>>>Still, if I were advising in this case, I'd probably go with RPG (or
>>>>>even C) before COBOL.  Next year, I might say Java, who knows!
>
>
>>Having programmed in RPG II, RPG III, ILE RPG, COBOL, CL, Awk, Visual Basic,
>>Delphi, Java, C, SYNON and SQL, I would NEVER pick RPG as my first choice!
>>Yuk.
>>When IBM FINALLY sees the light and makes ILE RPG COMPLETELY free-format,
THEN
>>I'd be inclined to lean that way.
>>(I do admit, however, the ILE RPG is a VAST improvement over any previous
>>incantations)
>>
>>Don "Quixote" Schenck
>
>
>Lets see,  That's 12 languages,  How many years in the field?  
>That's about 1.0 - 1.5 years experience in any one of the languages.  
>Which one would you say you're a PRO in?  
>
>P.S. Call Conte,  I think he might give you a "FREE" compiler for RPG. 
>       Unless he gave it away to someone else already.  <bg>
>       <Running & Ducking>
>
>JUST KIDDING GUYS.  I'm a kidder, comeon,  Humor,  Jezz
>
>AWK, Gee, Haven't seen that name since the cover of an early 90's News/400 
>Magazine.   How about PL1 or APL ?? (Hmm, APL,  #*^&%@$ sorry I don't have
>the right keyboard for the symbols,  Course, then again,  who'd know the
>difference?
>
>Sorry Don,  Just saw a windmill and thought I'd go for it.  
>You of all people would appreciate that right?
>
>If AWK is a language is YUK one too?  Just curious. or just a bird.
>Its late I'd better go to bed.

AWK, I just woke up!

The 'K' stands for Kernighan, one of the originators of C. I think 'A' is
for Aho, and I don't remember the 'W'.

It's really a very viable tool in the Unix world, along with things like
'grep' and 'sed'. I think that much of what AWK does can be done with REXX,
though, which is available on the 400.

I find the Unix crowd to be much more whimsical that IBM. I suppose IBM has
some kind of 'image' to maintain. But consider the following, from REXX:

>>---POS(needle,haystack--+--------+--)------------------><
                          +-,start-+

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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