Re: *** ADMIN: Ok, one more time, a POLL on www.midrange.com

At 07:33 11/24/1998 , Buck Calabro wrote:
>Many people I know feel that they don't have the time to
>learn it.  In a "mixed" environment (legacy code side by
>side with new development) there's a feeling that using
>2 versions will be hard to maintain.

It's soooooo much more productive than RPG3 though. It's amazing how just the 
ability to have local variables simplifies developing code that does complex 
processing. Then there's the prototyped calls and the eval op code with it's 
free form syntax that can combine multiple nested operations, the improved 
string handling, date support. I get really crabby when I have to work in RPG3. 
Maintaining two versions of RPG isn't a problem. They're not that different. 
Every once in a while, you have to look up the spelling of an op code, but the 
differences should not be a factor.

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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