Re: Why COBOL is losing the POWER struggle

In article <7ab01lF1uqgnmU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
riplin wrote:
On Jun 23, 1:14 pm, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

C#, Java, and Visual Basic ALL do it easily. The actual operand(s)
is/are not compressed; the buffer which it/they occurs in is not
changed in length either. A Regular Expression can expand or
compress replacement operands within a buffer. If it runs out of
expansion space then the last part of what the buffer contains is
truncated accordingly; if the string it contains becomes shorter,
then it is padded with whatever character you designate (space by
default).

You are wrong. The replace routine does not work 'in situ':

It does as far as I am concerned.

This may be one of the difficulties that is showing up in this thread. Mr
Dashwood, 'as far as you are concerned' is not 'what the machine is
doing'. What I am attempting to do is understand the latter, not the
former.

What it does under the covers is
irrelevant.

When it comes to attempting to grasp a new concept, Mr Dashwood, what you
consider relevant or not might be less useful in both this and future
situations than What Actuall Is Going On Down There. My concerns stem
from days when a coder had to be able to find the PSW, go back to the
previous imperative and determine what was going wrong so that the
tax-reports could run within the window that had been allotted to it them
and the company remain in compliance with The Law.

That's what I get paid for, at times... and giving my client decent value
for a decent dollar is how I try to do it.

[snip]

Don't care. All I am dealing with is outBuffer.

Oh, I forgot... a Big Picture Guy!

DD

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