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On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:20 -0500, Mike wrote:
This I agree. We still have s/32 (is that right?) code on the box. I would
have to have someone walk me through even getting in the right environment
much less how to program for it, compile it, and hell just to run it.
It's been a while, but I think there is little difference among S/32,
S34, and S/36, both OCL and RPG, when it comes to porting the programs
to System i. Does anybody remember otherwise?
Cheers,
Terry.
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:14 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One thing I would like to throw into the ring on this discussion is > this:
>
> Even though I fully ascribe to the maxim "If it ain't broke, don't fix > it"
> ... there are times that I do believe that an old application SHOULD be
> re-engineered even though it is still working.
>
> With the advent of the more modern languages (RPG included), the effort
> required to MAINTAIN some of those old applications can become > excessively
> burdensome as to be 'broken' even though they function perfectly.
>
> If an application requires sufficient modification ... a complete > rework
> _SHOULD_ be considered so long as the benefit of rewriting it rather > than
> trying to implement the heavy modifications (which would might make it
> harder to maintain in the future).
>
> david
> (writing from N53 20/W5 39)
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