Re: Visual Studio code convert to **free

Ah, LISP!// If you programmed MIDI devices in the 80s, LISP was what you used.  So... many... parentheses!

On 3/18/2024 2:22 PM, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

On 3/18/24 1:33 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
. . .

I can hardly stand reading or deciphering the old fixed format "stuff" we had to deal with.

. . .

That's rather odd:

I'm fluent, to varying degrees (or have been at some time since 1977) in
IBM VS-BASIC
IBM FORTRAN IV (G1 and WATFIV)
TRS-80 BASIC (Level I, Level II, Disk, Color, and Color Disk)
TRS-80 FORTRAN
CDC Cyber Pascal
CDC Cyber COBOL
CDC Cyber PL/I
CDC Cyber ANSI PL/I
CDC Cyber FORTRAN
DEC Macro-11 Assembler
UT LISP
M$ BASICA/GW-BASIC
M$ QuickBASIC and QBX
8086 Assembler
IBM AS/400 MI
IBM AS/400 RPG (both OPM and ILE)
IBM AS/400 CL (both OPM and ILE)
IBM AS/400 PL/I (OPM PRPQ)
Smalltalk
Java

(I could say something really insulting here.)

And yet, with all that background in languages that are either entirely free-format, or that have only minimally fixed formats (i.e., FORTRAN and COBOL), RPG /FREE looks like pure gibberish to me.

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JHHL