Re: Personal Rexx (Quercus) or what?

| Bob Martin wrote: .
|> Gerard46 wrote:
|>| Walter u. Christel Pachl wrote:
|>| Id did (and does) in the second Release!!!
|>|> Bob Martin wrote:
|>|>> ML wrote:
|>|>>And, if needed, skip INTERPRET for a while. Using INTERPRET is always
|>|>>avoidable, and it may save a few headaches including it from scratch.
|>|> The VM/CMS Rexx compiler did not support INTERPRET, so most
|>|> programmers learned to live without it.

| >No, if someone used INTERPRET in a REXX program to be compiled,
| >and if the compiler didn't support it, then those people just
| >didn't use the compiler. Besides, even when it did support
| >INTERPRET (later, in the 2nd release), it didn't speed up the
| >program that much anyway. ____________________________________Gerard S.

| That's a tad arrogant, if I may say so. Was I supposed to tell my manager that
| "I'm not going to to compile the code as you requested because the compiler doesn't
| support INTERPRET and I'll have to do a little extra work"?!
| Also, I disagree with your last point - compiled code was considerably faster.

Whether it's arrogant or not, I'll let you do the name
calling. If your manager is telling you HOW to do your
job and what tools to use, that's another problem.
If you're using an INTERPRET statement in your REXX
code (or inherited the code), and the compiler doesn't
support it, then you have a couple of choices. I
wouldn't waste the time re-writing code so that it
conforms to the compiler's restrictions, there's better
use of one's time. If you could do the "little extra
work", as you say, then do it. I have yet to see anyone
NOT use an INTERPRET statement in writing a general-
purpose calculator.

As to my last point, compiled code for the INTERPRET
statement wasn't that much faster, if at all. Note
that my last statement wasn't a general statement, but
was referring to compiling code that had the INTERPRET
statement in it. _____________________________Gerard S.




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