Re: X-Spec

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

John,

>If you thought you see some ugly, unmaintainable code today,
>I will go out on a limb and say you will see some code that 90% 
>of the programmers you will hire will not understand.

Maybe I'm blissfully ignorant, but I hope by that statement you're
referring to new RPG IV functionality like pointers, memory
allocation, bindery directories, prototyped calls, etc.

If you are saying that 90% of the RPG programmers couldn't read a
program where the opcode and factor 1 were reversed then had the
source nicely indented and aligned, then IMHO they deserve to flip
hamburgers.

>Remember APL ??? 

It was a write-only language.  Let's hope CF specs aren't.

>Will the CF-Spec bring over C or VB or Java programmers to RPG ?

Maybe not bring them over, but I certainly think it would improve
their chances of maintaining a legacy program should the need arise.

>Will it make "Better" programmers out of existing "Bad" ones ??

Unfortunately, there is very little that will do that if they are
unwilling to learn.


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