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CONSISTENCY.
By placing a common routine in a service program instead of coding it in
multiple programs, you know your code will act the same no
matter what program uses it. This is a benefit to both the programmer and the
end user.
Seth Shields
Julius Blum, Inc.
booth@martinvt.co
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owner-rpg400-l@mi Subject: RE: What are the
Benefits of
drange.com ILE?
10/23/00 01:05 PM
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RPG400-L
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.
_______________________
Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>
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10/23/2000 12:15 PM
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To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
cc:
Subject: RE: What are the Benefits of ILE?
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
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle
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