RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I posted my note before receiving the information that I could still code
them as fixed-format.

Suppose that RPG is changed to have C syntax.  Does someone think that I am
going to write new _products_ in RPG if C and Java are also possible?  Why
would I do that?

If my skills are limited to RPG or to languages that only work on the AS/400
then my earning potential is limited to the AS/400 marketplace.  That
represents a career issue (understatement intentional).

I haven't written a goto in C - yet - but I haven't written a lexical
analyzer yet either.

Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson and Associates Ltd.
IBM Business Partner
mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
http://www.richardjacksonltd.com
Telephone: 1 (303) 808-8058


-|-----Original Message-----
-|From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
-|Behalf Of Jon.Paris@hal.it
-|Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 12:16 PM
-|To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
-|Subject: RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?
-|
-|
-|
-| >> If I cannot code a GOTO or BRANCH command in version 5 of a language
-|when the other 4 versions supported GOTO then something has been removed.
-|
-|Richard please re-read my (and Gary's) other posts - NO ONE IS TAKING GOTO
-|AWAY - it is just not supported in the free-format syntax.
-|
-|I for one applaud that LOUDLY!  If I'm going to have to deal with
-|code that
-|includes GOTOs I want the little buggers to stand out as much as possible.
-|Having them coded in fixed form in the middle of a free-form section does
-|that job beautifully (well beautiful is probbaly the woring word but ....
-|<grin>)
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