RE: justifying a character variable

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lynette Chronister wrote:

>Yes, I of course understand the abilities of ILE vs 400 levels

Ah, well.  At least _you_ know what you're missing.

>However, my company's main application is outsourced and written in S36.

So how are you integrating your changes into the vendor's code?  (no matter
what language the changes are in)

>Therefore, we have no externally described files to work with.

"I" specs still work in RPG IV...  <grin>

>We are a very small programming shop and have very little 
>need for the major advances of ILE vs the time it would 
>take to train the programmers.

Sigh.  What training do even S/36 programmers need to understand how to use
meaningful variable names?  Fewer built-in limits?  The best of luck to you.
I've been in your shoes and deeply sympathise with your plight.  

Benchmark the run-time difference between evalr and Barbara's elegant code
and the various array-based code.  Give them numbers to show what they're
missing out on.  That's how I got my first RPG IV program into production.
If your longest processing program can have it's run time cut bu 20% (not
unreasonable) by converting to RPG IV and re-compiling, your company just
got a 20% bigger CPU.  For free.

Buck 
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