RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe wrote:

>However, it's painfully obvious to me that the majority 
>of the posters on this list agree with you.  Evidently 
>they, too, no longer worry about shops that have little 
>or no time for education, older coders who don't really
>want to learn new things, and backlogs up to their ears 
>that prevent a wholesale conversion of MOVEs to 
>%editc(num:'X') for what would in effect be zero gain - and 
>in fact would require some pretty serious additional
>testing.

Well THAT made me stand up and be counted.  The organisation you describe is
hauntingly familiar to me.  I deleted a tirade about legacy code that I see
every day in favour of brevity.  What I really want to say is this: Just
because I don't argue _this particular issue_ with the same fire as you,
doesn't mean I don't care about my mega-legacy code bases.  I just have
other stuff that's higher on my personal priority list (like full OPDESC
support), that's all.  Not ivory tower, but busy with other stuff.
  --buck