From: Ellen K. 

I think debugging old stuff is debugging old stuff, regardless of the
language.   In my current situation the wrinkle is that I'd never even
SEEN Clipper before this job.

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:41:20 -0500, "David Blair"
 wrote in message
:

>You've obviously never had the pleasure (?) of trying to discern the inner
>workings of code written 25 years ago in RPG II then
"upgraded'" to RPG III
>(sort of) and then RPG/400 (which was RPG III for the AS/400 )
>then RPG IV but not really.
>
>Along the way it had conflicting standards, redundant code, bug fixes which
>rather than fix bugs fix results of bugs introduced at other points in code,
>lost routines, undocumented calls to code which lost its
>source...................
>
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:6ri7gvcdmttetkbq6qeo7g1s3h18te7oe7{at}4ax.com...
>> Just imagine, you could have my job and be spending hours debugging
>> ancient Clipper code to figure out what algorithms underlie existing
>> reports that need to be replaced...
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:22:53 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>  wrote in message
:
>>
>> >> If I'm doing traditional RPG/400, RPG III, or basic RPG IV, in
>maintenance
>> >> mode with old style code, you can have it.
>> >
>> >I'll take anything RPG/400 and better, but I prefer ILERPG. 
It really is
>> >easier IME for any normal business stuff than some of the other hoops
>I've
>> >had to jump through...
>> >
>> >- Bob Comer
>> >
>> >
>> >"David Blair"  wrote in message
>> >news:3f030e3b{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> It depends on if I am maintaining or doing new
development, and if I am
>> >able
>> >> to use ILE or stuck with OPM style.
>> >>
>> >> If I'm doing traditional RPG/400, RPG III, or basic RPG IV, in
>maintenance
>> >> mode with old style code, you can have it.
>> >>
>> >> If I can do new development with properly designed
projects, perhaps.
>> >>
>> >> It's gotten better by V5R2's ILE variant, but....
>> >>
>> >> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>> >> news:3f01a619{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> > Nothing wrong with RPG, I'll take it over any other
language for
>> >business
>> >> > apps.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Bob Comer
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > "David Blair" 
wrote in message
>> >> > news:3f01298d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> > >
>> >> > > "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
>> >> > > news:3ef9dcdb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Even us RPG programmers use the various
forms of While...
>> >> > >
>> >> > > THOSE EVIL LETTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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