RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fuhgeddaboudit.  I cannot possibly battle all of you.

And you know what?  Maybe this mixed mode syntax makes sense, and I just
can't see it.  Maybe everybody will be coding /free and /end-free in their
code from now on, and it will be good.  Personally, I think that's
ludicrous, and I think five years from now programmers will look at these
/codes and say, "Couldn't the compiler writers decide what they wanted to
support?".

Just think - five years from now someone will pick up a mixed-mode program
with embedded SQL and have to know not one, not two, but THREE different
syntaxes in order to decipher it.  And somehow this is a good thing?

I'm very scared.  Very scared.

Anyway, I'm pretty much the only one saying the emperor has no clothes, so
maybe it's just me and I need new glasses.  You all think this is a good,
smart direction for your shops.  I'm tired of this, and I wasted another two
hours on it today.  No more.  I shall drop it, since nobody else seems to
give a damn, and everybody is willing to let Hans and company tell them how
to write code.

Legacy applications be damned - you want new features, rewrite your code!
Or use syntax switches!  This is the new RPG!

Me and Tonto, we're outta here...