RE: ILE conversion

But are you just converting to RPGIV from III?  If you still compile to the
default activation group you do not get the ILE performance hit or file
override problems that can crop up in the ILE environment.  We converted all
to RPGIV and make it ILE when necessary.  Our crtxxxpgm default is still
DFTACTGRP(*YES) and we put in the Header Specs to set the appropriate
activation group, binding directories when we need to use external
procedures.  (Which is becoming more and more common every day.)

Christopher K. Bipes    mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.        http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive   Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928  Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:47 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE.COM'
Subject: RE: ILE conversion


I hadn't thought about the conversion, but I've noticed that I'm having more
and more trouble doing maintenance on RPG Classic code.  I ask myself things
like "What's this IFEQ opcode?" and other silly questions.  I tend to
convert everything I need to change more than a few lines of code on.  That
way I'll at least understand my modifications as well as I ever understand
my modifications.

Admittedly this is like reading Chaucer with parts machine translated into
modern English, but I'm willing to bet that if there are future generations
of RPG programmers, they'll probably not do too well with RPG Classic.  I
think I'd want some sort of compulsion/coercion to do a wholesale
translation on entire systems, though. 
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