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And my college systems analysis book says to avoid new fangled languages
like RPG. Stay with more tried and true languages like fortran.
rpg /free in itself is not buggy. There are a few rules of thumb to
remember - mainly doing with the @#$%ing SQL precompiler. One basic rule
of thumb, (which may have been fixed with a ptf) was not having /free being
your first C spec.
Another thing to consider is intermediate results in math. For example,
x=(y*3) + z**2 + ...
May not be the same as a bunch of single step calc specs. Just read up on
that. Actually that's not a free format thing. You might have that same
issue with eval versus the single step calc specs.
Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
Mike Haston **
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RPG programming on
the AS400 /
iSeries
"Free-format is buggy" sounds like the same person that told me to use his
date program that passed 10 parameters to check a date when he saw me using
Test(de). "Test(de) isn't tried and true" he told me. And that was that.
-----Original Message-----
From: E Doc [mailto:doc6502@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:12 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: /FREE RPG compiler errors
Hi all
I have a situation at work where I'm trying to determine if there is a
severe
impact going to free-format RPG. There are a couple of issues:
1. I have people who are very "anti" that continue to state that
"free-format
RPG" is buggy. I cannot get any specifics out of these folks, but it does
make
me wonder a bit-- has anyone on this list encountered any compiler bugs
using
free-format RPG?
2. Has any shop whole-heartedly embraced using RPG Free? If so, how large
was
the hill you had to climb? Also, how did the staff take the news that they
were going to use this "new" stuff.
Thanks!
-Doc
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