RE: X-Spec (was: "RPG isn't cool")

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Joel wrote:
>One of the reasons I'm for free form source is that I've been looking
>forward to the first Obfuscated RPG contest.  Maybe the prizes could be
>AS/400 t shirts and pizza coupons.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:37 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: X-Spec (was: "RPG isn't cool")
>
>
>"CF-Spec" or "Free-form Calculation Specification"
>
>CF - spec?  Is that what we referred in the military as a CharlieFoxtrot or
>something
>like that?
>
>Will we be able to do multiple operations on a single line, seperating them
>with some
>sort of punctuation?  Then we can start having confusing code contests like
>the Unix
>people, or see who could make the prettiest pictures, for example:
>
>                           eval
>                   result=thisonebighonking
>             longvariablefromsomeonewholovestotype
>           +thissimplelittlevariable;eval thisother
>             field=thefieldwiththetotalsinit-
>                 thatfieldwiththeexceptions
>                           /234

(ROTFL!)

Sorry, no help to the "Obfuscated RPG" contest! We're still
doing one statement per line max.  I thought the equivalent
challenge in RPG is to use all of the predefined indicators
in one program!

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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