RE: RPGMail Wrapping was -> Catch 'n release MONITOR'd message

I have been basically fortunate here - I am allowed to code 
"some" free format, sub-procedures and such.   
But it does "scare" the other coders, they are not keeping up,
so I have gotten around this by showing everyone LOTS of 
documentation in my "newer styled" programs.
This has eased their fears some.

It has also kept me in a position of being needed,
due to some things they have requested, I was able to 
convince them that it can only be done this way, that the
lowest denominator would require a program twice as large,
and run four times longer (lots of BS, no true numbers)

I would urge people on the list to venture out, be free!!!
It took me a long time to get people around here to just
use date type fields for calculating the duration,
they finally saw how much code they had to do and how 
little code I had to do, and they slowly picked it up,
and as for free-format, if you code it "nicely" most 
programmers will love the indentation ability so you can
show your do/if/for groups at a  glance, rather than needing
twelve different colored pens/pencils/crayons/highlighters
to be able to figure out the code.  

Good luck to all who could just as well be coding on a S/34
back in 1982, I do hope you continue to fight for your right
to code at least in the year 2002 on an AS/400 (ok, Iseries).

Mark A. Manske (grateful for being able to expand my mind)

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David A Parnin
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:52 PM
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Subject: RE: RPGMail Wrapping was -> Catch 'n release MONITOR'd message


Bob Cagle Wrote
I am curious, how many other programmer's besides Joe here are stuck in
a shop where they only allow you to code to the lowest denominator?
It's a battle that I have fought several times before.
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I do.  I'm the only developer!

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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