RE: ILE conversion

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hadn't thought about the conversion, but I've noticed that I'm having more
and more trouble doing maintenance on RPG Classic code.  I ask myself things
like "What's this IFEQ opcode?" and other silly questions.  I tend to
convert everything I need to change more than a few lines of code on.  That
way I'll at least understand my modifications as well as I ever understand
my modifications.

Admittedly this is like reading Chaucer with parts machine translated into
modern English, but I'm willing to bet that if there are future generations
of RPG programmers, they'll probably not do too well with RPG Classic.  I
think I'd want some sort of compulsion/coercion to do a wholesale
translation on entire systems, though. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:09 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE.COM'
> Subject: RE: ILE conversion
> 
> 
> ILE calls to subprocedures are faster than OPM calls.
> ILE (done right) will teach you basics if you want to learn OOP.
> ILE service programs make updating systems easier.
> Learning is good.
> 
> Brad
> If the new AS/400s run Java fast, just think how fast they'll run RPG!
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:50 AM
> > To: Graves, Chuck
> > Cc: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: Re: ILE conversion
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Chuck,
> > 
> > pardon my ignorance, but why are you changing the programs to 
> > "ILE"?  Is
> > there a reason beyond "political correctness" to do so?
> > 
> > Frankly, I submit that unless there's a good reason to goto 
> > the new format
> > (additional functionality being my #1, followed by needing access to
> > additional data types) you should NOT convert them.  
> They're smaller,
> > smaller source, and probably load and run faster as it.
> > 
> > You may want to do some benchmarkers there dude...ILE does 
> > have a cost,
> > IFF indeed you're just moving up to move up...
> > 
> > Don in DC
> > (Waiting for Jon's blast...:)
> > 
> > -------
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