Re: [netrexx-pipelines] Migrate OS/2 pipelines to NetRexx Pipes

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Hi Leslie!

Am 18.06.2022 um 07:50 schrieb J Leslie Turriff:
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> 	Courier and Courier New, IMO, should be deprecated; there are plenty of other monospace
> fonts available that make the distinction clear, so clinging to an outmoded typeface
> designed for use on a mechanical device with limited number of keys seems like bad
> practice to me, and ought not outweigh the advantages of using abbreviations.

You are right in respect of my own PC, but I can't impede others
which font to use reading my programs. Even prefixing every file
with something like
/* To view this REXX restrain from using Courier or Courier New,
it could cause serious confusions */
it might still be bad habit to code Do l = 1 to i ...

> 	I generally only use the abbreviations when writing pipelines 'on the fly' to be executed
> directly from the command line; when writing them in source code I use the fully expanded
> word because it better documents what the pipeline is doing.

What makes 'SFSDIRectory' document better what's going on than
using 'SFSDIR'? -- I'm not convinced. I use shortcuts only, i)
less typo-prone, ii) faster to catch, simpler to grasp. An example
neither pipe nor REXX related: mnemonics for firmware programs.
There is an emulator for HP's classic calculators which lists
firmware unabbreviated -- awful tiresome for the eyes. For some
reverse-engineering I had to convert it to mnemonics first.

Best,
M.