RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.

I couldn't agree more.
I hear about the verifier from people that use it at 35,000 Feet. Why?
Because they're on an airplane going to give a presentation on WDSC or RPG
IV at COMMON, RPG World or a user group event. Other than those 12 people,
why would anyone care about the verifier today? But you hear a lot about it
because those 12 people have the ear of the RPG community and don't realize
that virtually "nobody" cares about the verifier.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.


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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:42 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.

Honestly, our compiles run so dang fast that I never bother with verify. 
We have a separate development machine.  However, back in the bad old days 
with dog hardware and no development machine I do recall one programmer 
getting an earfull because programmer "numbnuts"
(who couldn't write a program trickier than something that could be 
duplicated with Query/400, which he refused to use, probably because it 
would obsolete him) 
narced on him to management because the system was so slow because his 
compile was bogging the system.

New hardware.  Separate development machine.  And numbnuts left because, 
(and I am not making this up), he found a friend that would let him stay 
there for nothing, so why work.

Rob Berendt