On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:19:28 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote: >FYI, I also put REXX into that category if someone tries to be 'fancy'. >And I use REXX a lot. > (To what are you replying? Did this thread come from BITNET?)
What do you consider "fancy" or "unreadable" Rexx? I know a FORTRAN programmer who was overjoyed when I showed him how to use associative arrays to simplify his code. But I read comments from Rexx programmers who yet insist that compound symbols must have positive integer tails and the upper bound in the 0th member. How about using TRANSLATE() to re-order a string? Relying on PROCEDURE to reset ADDRESS, SIGNAL ON, etc.? Using relational expressions as arithmetic terms? Others worse? >I remember a programmer, back in '81, that was told that he could no >longer use RPG, but must use COBOL. He was upset so started using >Spanish variable names. This was not California, but was North Alabama, >where few spoke it. (Yes, management did catch him after a month or so.) >Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM: >> On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: >>> >>> "C is the first write-once, read-never language." >> >> Not even close; APL was around nearly a decade before C. >> Assembler? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
