It is not surprising that the pick market has a bit of a dinosaur-esqe
image, as it would seem that many of us are still coding around bugs
that were fixed 20 or more years ago. I can't speak for others, but it
seems to me that 1985 was ONE HELL OF A LONG TIME AGO as regards to the
computer industry. New functions and syntax get added to the language
for good reasons. (Speed, standardization, simplicity, etc.) Use them!
I still see new code using:
CNT = COUNT(REC,CHAR(254))+(REC NE "")
or even worse
LOCATE('[EMAIL PROTECTED]',REC;CNT) ELSE CNT = CNT - 1
I guess old habits die hard.
Not wanting to start a flame war, but come on guys...
/Scott Ballinger
Pareto Corporation
Edmonds WA USA
206 713 6006
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony W.
Youngman
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [U2] THE variable names
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>Not directed at you Mark, but someone mentioned that Remove has been
>around a long time. Not so. REMOVE was not added to the ADDS
>environment until perhaps around the mid 80s or so. And I still find
>it much more confusing that simply SELECTing a variable to another
>variable. That to me is more intuitive.
And DCOUNT was added to INFORMATION at about the same time. It certainly
wasn't there when I started using it in 85. I suspect this was due to
the SPECTRUM standardisation attempts.
Cheers,
Wol
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thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The
man lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998
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