RE: question on survey question

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Half of those people, or more, wouldn't allow you to put a PTF on their
machine to get the fix anyway.  Their mentality is "don't change anything
that isn't broke".  Ok so now you can develop from your older release to a
newer release.  But you still can't use the new feature because you don't
know which customers have the ptf installed or not.  Or are you expecting
the compiler people to be like the CASE tool vendors.  Take a nice pretty
construct and dumb it down into something supported on ancient versions of
the operating system.  For example, let's say your CASE vendor takes SELECT
and dumbs it down into a crapload of nested if's.

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin



                    Tom Daly
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> Bill said:
 |
 |  PS:  and as a software developer who constantly has to code
 |  something
 |  multiple times to satisfy customers who are various releases of our
 |  software, my answer will be a resounding NO!  <g>
 |

I think having the ability to target multiple OS releases with a single
compiler would be great!  A fair portion of 'customization' work on our
newer code relates to back level compatibility.  Just because a customer
doesn't move their OS ahead doesn't mean that they shouldn't be able to
take
advantage of newer language enhancements... unless there's some OS specific
change.

I don't like coding something multiple times - like undoing EVALR code or
%DIV and %REM into RPG III style code.

Tom

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