RE: What are the benefits of ILE?

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ILE will benifit even if you don't follow every ILE rule.

For example, you have a routine that figures item price based on qty, etc.
You probably have this subroutine in 5 or more programs.  Make this a
module, and you'll just see:

ExtPrice = #ExtPrice(Item:Qty)

Take 30 minutes to look through your programs and ask around.  Every shop
I've dealt with has that "one nasty subroutine" that is copied in hundreds
of programs.  When it needs to change, that means chaning all of those
programs.

Will subprocedures, you only need change it in on place (the module
containing that nasty code), and you're done.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SCarter@rsrcorp.com [mailto:SCarter@rsrcorp.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:56 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: What are the benefits of ILE?
> 
> 
> 
> I know we had the thread a few weeks back "ILE Propaganda" 
> and in it were
> discussed the differences between using ILE and Modules.  I know the
> benefits of ILE but what I want to know are when do we fully use ILE
> concepts, and when do we just code a single source program. 
> With some real
> world example of the benefits.
> I would like to know how Visual Age RPG works with ILE, or does it.
> 
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