Re: Survey Numbers

[Randy Mangham <randym69@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wouldn't recommend depending on the CVTRPGSRC command to teach anyone great 
RPG
IV coding practices. It wasn't designed to do that at all. It makes no
modifications whatsoever that demonstrate modern RPG IV coding techniques. There
are tools that you can buy that do claim to do a more "sophisticated" job of
converting the code, though.  Nevertheless, since RPG IV and RPG III can coexist
together, why keep writing something in RPG III even if existing code isn't 
going
to be converted yet or full blown ILE design isn't going to be used yet? Even 
w/o
using ILE techniques a programmer can be more productive in RPG IV.

Randy Mangham
Pacific Crest

Bill Meecham wrote:

> There are very many people who like to stick to what they are familiar with.
> They should be encouraged to adopt something new like ILE but it's not a
> problem, at least short term, if they don't.  I don't see the problem with
> shops that wish to continue development in RPGIII when, at any time, they
> could convert to a simple form ILE with the IBM supplied command and even
> use it as a learning tool!

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