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Re: Mi vs C


On 11-Dec-07, at 1:00 PM, Rich Hart wrote:

I doubt that most of us that still mess with MI do it for efficiency. It's
more a labour of love, or a hobby (as with me), or simply nostalgia for the
old Sys/38 days when "we could work anywhere in the country".

Well the OP appeared to be writing brand new production oriented code and that was what triggered my thinking


It's instructive to have some knowledge of MI just to be able to better
understand what goes on under the covers. But of course, I would not want
to write in MI for hardly any practical purpose anymore. Just to open a
display file and do simple IO is a LOT of work!


No disagreement - and if you think writing in MI is a pain try writing the code that generates that MI in the first place!

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



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