Pain or gain was RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

Two little things:

The problems mostly seem to stem from conversion from RPGII to RPGIII or its
successors.

You didn't have to learn anything new to do it.

I'll stand by Buck's original statement that there are immediate benefits
from RPGIV that you can enjoy while still writing RPGIII style code with no
time spent _learning_ the language differences. 

I have to agree that the conversion should have been a lot easier. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 5:18 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Using % type functions/using RPG IV
> 
> 
> Well, take for instance the program I am converting to RPG IV from
> RPG II.  >

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> Time involved converting RPG II to RPG IV 5+
> 
> Now, if I was writing this from scratch, it would be much, 
> much faster to
> write it in RPGIV then RPGII, but legacy exists.
> 
> There is good and bad in this though.  My new program is going to be
> ILE, or RPG IV anyway, I'm not going to link anything to it.  
> The original
> program I copied this from, however, is still RPGII.  Argh!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Joel Fritz wrote:
> 
> > Good points on RPGIV, but I like the understanding of the 
> learning curve
> > even better.  The greater the slope, the faster you learn.  
> The steepest
> > learning curve is the one described below, 0 time to 
> complete mastery.
> 
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