RE: What are the Benefits of ILE?

[booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

You realize I am not a sophisticated top line programmer but from my point 
of view I like RPGIV because: date and time math is incredibly fool proof 
and easy, because there are nice built-in functions like  %Found, %EOF, 
%Error, %EditC, %EditW, because field lengths can exceed 256 characters, 
because I can name subroutines "WriteRecordSR" or "GetDetailSR", and 
because indicators 01 through 99 are just not needed anymore(except for 
DDS).  There are other reasons but those are the ones that leap to the 
fore. 

So far as the ILE part... well that is still a dark mystery to me.
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Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>
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Amir Khan wrote:

> It has been noticed that more RPG programmer 
> are switching over to ILE. I  would like to know 
> what are the benefits of using RPG/ILE 
> since I am also involved in the programming 
> tasks from time to time. 

Brad mentioned code reuse, but the biggest benefit for me far and away was
improved readability.  I can use truly meaningful variable names instead 
of
6 character ABRVTS (abbreviations).

Other benefits (for an old RPG II programmer):
1) Fewer limitations (larger arrays, character strings, etc.)
2) Local storage via subprocedures

Buck Calabro
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