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  • Subject: RE: Using % type functions
  • From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:21:49 -0800



> -----Original Message-----
> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 5:59 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Using % type functions
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Why would anyone NOT want to use procedures?
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
> 
> +---

First of all there are some good, or at least defensible, reasons like
management won't let me, or most of our work involves maintaining a package
written in RPG Classic.

Otherwise, there's:
</rhetorical excess >
Inertia
Moral Degeneracy
That's the way we've always done it.
Moral Degeneracy
Spiritual kinship with Ned Ludd
Moral degeneracy
I neither want nor need to learn anything new about RPG.  I can get
everything I need done without procedures.
<rhetorical excess/>
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