in reply to Re: The classical TAB issue
in thread The classical TAB issue

Decades of programming practise hasn't been able to settle this matter.

Hey, RPG programmers solved it years ago! Then they unsolved it by introducing Free Form. I'd like to officially welcome all the old RPG programmers out there to the wonderful world of tabstop flamefests.

(Languages meant for punchcards)--

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Re: Re: Re: The classical TAB issue
by ysth (Canon) on Apr 08, 2004 at 09:54 UTC
    Don't know if I count as an RPG programmer; I can neither read nor write it, but have had to do bug fixes in it in the past :(

    It seemed to me like a bizarre cross between a fourth generation language and assembler.

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      Like I said, it's meant for punchcards. I could see how a column-oreinted desgin (where certain identifiers must fit on a certain column of text) would make sense on a punchcard, but it should have been chucked out at the introduction of on-screen editors. On the upside, you can probably parse it easily with unpack.

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