RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Code400 brings us up to the level of Turbo Pascal in the late
eighties--almost.  Don't get me wrong, I use it almost exclusively now in
spite of the .75-1.5 crashes per day and the strange behavior of the
debugger (it only succeeds in loading the program about half the time.)  Of
course things could be worse if I weren't using the current version with the
latest service pack.  The only person I work with who's willing to try it is
a contractor who used it before on another job.  I did convince one other
person to load it, but he's still recovering from being forced to write
RPGIV code in mixed case.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:16 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()
>
>
> Martin,
>
>
> > Not so awesome if it's in your coding standards ;-) We tend
> to use the
> > PREFIX keword to add an identifier to file fields which does help a
> lot.
> > Another thing that helps (me, at least) is defining program
> fields in
> > mixed case and file/external fields kept in upper case. Admittedly
> it's a
> > bit more effort to do specific case coding so I wrote a program (as
> you
> > do) to tidy up the code to match the our standards.
>
>
> And of course the reason we need to do this is because we
> have a crappy
> development environment. After all, we all grew up writing
> code in SEU,
> and most people still use it today. In my latest survey, more than 77%
> use SEU/PDM exclusively, while another 11% use it as their
> primary tool
> but also use either CodeStudio or Code/400. Only 3 percent have weaned
> themselves off SEU/PDM.
>
> Which goes to show you, even after a decade of GUI-based RPG editors
> such as CODE/400 and CodeStudio being available, often for free or
> nearly free, there is still no compelling incentive to leave the
> high-speed keypunching enablement that SEU provides. And that's a darn
> shame. :(
>
> Bob Cozzi
>
>
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