Re: AW: remove blanks

Hi Birgitta

Converting all those op codes into EVALs is tedious at best - and IBM's CVTRPGSRC (is that the name) command does none of this. Fortunately we have Bob Luebbe's Linoma Software RPG tools - full control over how things are converted. Data definitions in C-specs can be moved to D-specs, even case changes, and lots of other good stuff. This makes the transition to the new stuff much easier.

Regards
Vern

At 12:12 AM 9/27/2007, you wrote:

Hi,

>>I noticed that after I posted - I still find it hard to believe that
anyone is writing new code in RPG III.

But there are a lot!
Even worse are those, who converted the RPGII/RPGIII code to RPGIV but write
new code by using RPGII/RPGIII syntax. Currently I'm working on a software
that was written in the late 90ties. Not a single EVAL nor a
built-in-function can be found, but a lot of indicators (*IN01 - *IN99)
lefthand of the code and the sources aren't documented at all.
Not even Subfiles are used! The syntax used is older than I ever learned it.

(and I started with RPGIII in the early 90ties).

... The worst is, the programmer refuses to learn or to use new features:
"I wrote programs in this way since 30 years and it works!"
(with a lot of failures that could have been avoided when RPGIV techniques
would have been used!)

And an other comment: "Copying is faster than trying something new!!!"

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." (Les
Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training them
and keeping them!"

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Betreff: RE: remove blanks


>> Several have answered with ILE IV solutions - he is working in RPG III

I noticed that after I posted - I still find it hard to believe that anyone
is writing new code in RPG III.

What is particularly odd is that this appears to be an outsourcing
situation. Why on earth would you outsource (to people who apparently don't
know the language) and have the new code written in a language obsolete for
12 years. Sigh....

See you at Summit Vern.

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com


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