RE: ILE Propoganda

Bill Bynum

> In my MANY years of programming,(mind you that MANY constitutes  a level
> much higher than Jr. programmer) every subroutine written in programs that
> are currently being used in a production environment have been previously
> tested(i.e. old code that is NOT broken). Granted, you may have 
> to tweak the
> code(i.e. change indicator references, etc.) but it puts the code right in
> front of you rather than relying on a hardcopy, and/or an additional
> session, swapping back and forth from one to the other.
> 
> Talking about being realistic, when you are dealing with RPGII, RPGIII,
> RPG400, and RPGLE in one environment, and you know that there is a

I wouldn't call that *one* environment. :) 

> subroutine or a piece of code that is being used in an RPGII program that
> would help you in an RPG400 program, you better believe that I will go and
> copy that code and drop it into the new program. And the nice thing about
> it, it works every time.
> 

Programmers are indeed different. I sure wouldn't drop a piece of old code into
one of my programs. Perhaps you're reluctant of using API's too, since the
code isn't "right in front of you"?



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