RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures

--- Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip> 
> Needless to say, one of his managers had to make a change to his app.
> She didn't understand any of it, so, she re-wrote the entire thing in
> RPG/400.  When he came back off of medical leave, he was told he could
> not use any RPGIV at all, much less the database enhancements.  Many of
> you will say that this manager should be fired, and you're right.  But,
> she just happens to be the boss in IT - who's going to fire her?  The
> CFO who knows nothing of programming?

I was fired from a job several years ago for writing one stinkin' application in
RPG-IV.  When I first started there, I had written a bunch of apps in RPG-IV, 
then
they came back and said no more.  Several months had passed doing nothing but
maintenance to old RPG-III apps, and then a new project had me doing more new
development.  Project manager was reviewing developers' work, saw my RPG-IV (my
mistake, I forgot), called me in for a 10-minute tirade.  My mistake was asking 
the
project manager (fairly fluent in RPG-III) if he truly could not understand 
what the
program was doing.  "Doesn't matter!  We only do RPG-III here"  I envisioned him
with knuckles dragging on the floor.  I went back and "converted" it to RPG-III 
in
fifteen minutes' time, and was fired the next day, being told, I swear, "you 
were
told not to use RPG-IV, so we're going to let you go."

I shook the dust off my shoes as I walked out the door.

GA

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