Re: Sequence error in MR

[G Armour <garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   MR processing is not understood by many, since it's considered "old
> hat" and is probably not taught much.  But why overlook a powerful tool?

> Read the chapter on it and understand it!

IMHO, the reason why MR processing is not understood by many is that 99%
of the programmers working today never programmed by wire, on the original
RPG platform!  I don't "consider" MR to be old hat, it *IS* old hat!  Does
Cozzi even discuss MR in his latest RPG-IV primer?

I understand MR, but I'd have to brush up on the technical details if I
had to debug an MR program.  I suppose that if I regularly maintained MR
programs, I might protest less.  Thankfully, that is not the case.

Probably the best reason to rewrite is that, unlike myself, most
programmers have never seen an MR program.  Pity the poor programmer who's
never seen MR before and has to maintain/fix such a beast.  Yeah, go read
up on it in the manual, waste a few hours trying to get a handle on MR,
fix the problem (maybe; how many others will get pulled into the morass
before it's over?), and forget what you just learned about MR cuz you'll
never see it again.

That should be an important consideration, unless one is looking for job
security.

>   Please don't take this personally 

LOL! ;-)

> or take it to mean that I believe
> that complex MR programs should be written.  But for the example shown I
> think that it's very appropriate.  JMHO.

To each their own!  ;-)
But in my shop, OMDB!

GA

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