Re: FW: Random

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

<HUMOR *ON>
Gee Booth, if we're going to modify RPG to appeal to C programmers, and PL/I
programmers, why not BASIC programmers too? <VBG>

From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
> C'mon, Booth, it's just another way of setting up a counter loop that's
more
> like other languages.  I have a friend who's been programming in RPG since
> the system 3 who never coded a DO counter loop because he thought the
> positional notation was counterintuitive.  (He's very good, by the way.)
He
> codes his counter loops in a DOW with explicit addition or subtraction.
It
> doesn't hurt anyone to have a free form analogue to the DO construct.

> > From: boothm@earth.Goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.Goddard.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:02 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: FW: Random
> >
> > oh great.  now we've got "downto"s.
> >
> > Sorry Hans, I know these are great additions and everyone
> > else will be
> > breathing hard for a week but I don't see a big difference
> > between this
> > and a DO loop with a "downto" added for glamour.
> >
> > Please excuse me being grumpy.   I don't see these
> > enhancements adding a
> > thing to RPG's competitiveness, or to the AS/400's appeal to
> > the business
> > community.


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