Re: Why RPG IV Sucks

[RPower@xxxxxxxxxx]

Lol,
I asked that question in the whole Y2K issue when I worked at another 
company.  I was told bluntly "don't worry about it, none of us will be 
working at that point".  I kid you not lol.  Hopefully I'll be retired for 
a few years by then, stocking up on shotgun shells, bottled water, canned 
goods, and teleportation device.  :)

Ron Power
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And by the way, what's going to happen to your 6-digit dates nearing the 
year 2040?  It's only a few more years than the age of some of the 
programs we just changed in 1999! And they can't change the date window 
for 6-digit dates either! 

(Ducking and bobbing..)

Hindsight and Monday-morning quarterbacks always being superior to the 
Vince Packards of the world, we could also say they should have done two 
date data "types" instead of one (six-digit and eight-digit).  That way 
*LOVAL and *HIVAL could have been the same thing for the same data type. 
But then we would have squawked about that too.

Maybe it's different, but I liked Scott's idea that varying length 
fields should have been a data type separate from the character type.

But then we can handle it! :-)  I'd say the compiler design team and the 
compiler programmers overall have done pretty good at helping us move 
forward without breaking old code.

- Alan
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