RE: Defining a function key...

["Denis Robitaille" <DRobitaille@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about fresh new RPG programmer right out of school?

My example was to show that when people says that this or that technique is 
intuitive, this is only true relative to the person past experience.

In my company (about 200 IT people, of those about 100 have to work with RPG) 
most people that we hired were not seasoned RPG programmers, they came from 
other platform or were very green. We've been using the AID technique as a 
shoop standard for over 6 years so most of our RPG programmer are not familiar 
with the *INKx technique. In fact when they have to work on old programs that 
uses this technique, they always go to the closest grey hair guy and ask what 
those *ink? stands for.

Also, just curious, how do you handle other keys (enter, page-up, page-down 
...). One of the thing I like with the AID technique is that I can treat all 
keys the same way.

Denis Robitaille
Directeur services techniques
Cascades Inc
819 363 5187


>>> rbaird@esourceconsulting.com 03/19/02 10:46am >>>
Denis,

uh, you know, I can't remember the last time I wrote an RPG program and
thought to myself...

"Hmmm... I wonder if a C programmer would understand this section of code.
Maybe I aught to make my RPG look as much like C as possible, so that in
case someone who only knows C want's to change it, then he'll be able to."

But now I'm leaving out all those COBOLers.  Maybe I should write it so
that it would be better understood by COBOL programmers.

I don't mean to be curt, but I write rpg programs clear enough so that rpg
programmers can change them.  I don't care if a C programmer has to learn a
few basic rules of my preferred language.

Rick