From: "David Blair" 

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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