RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey!!! I resemble that remark! 
 
Scott, its not as simple as you suggest. This whole area is complex and
requires a mind that is one notch up from most RPG programmers in the real
world, including me. Sub procedures may seem simple to you but they are very
confusing and troublesome for me. I am not refusing to accept change; I do
that all the time. But sub procedures baffle me. I am not being a wise guy
when I say... Some people can memorize the manuals and tell you what manual
and what chapter holds the answer to a question. I am not one of those
people. Neither are most RPG programmers.
 
Further, the lead programmer in a shop can dictate how the shop will run.
The rest of the shop must just fall into line. No one but the lead person
can determine any of the algorithms or designs for sub procedures. Callable
programs, RPGIV, %BIFS, and all of the other neat stuff can be picked up a
little at a time and brought into a shop but not sub-procedures. However,
one must cross the sub procedures canyon in one giant step.
 
 
(looking for marshmallows... fire must be useful for something???)
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:51:08 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures
 
... The advantage to callable programs is that your 90
year old programmers (who haven't yet agreed that fire is useful) are able
to use the callable programs.