Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hans, I respectfully disagree about how "easier" is interpreted in this
context.  

A metaphor might be a wandering brook through a field.  One might think that
a straight line from high spot to low spot would be the "easier" way for the
brook to flow but gosh...  the brook finds it is way easier to meander all
over the field.  Its all of those  little bumps and rocks and soft spots
that determine where the brook goes.  

Programers all have days of little bumps, rocks, and soft  spots.  I won't
accept the implication that most older RPG programmers are too lazy to
accept new stuff.  We have all gone down the 'next new way' a time or two
too many.

 
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:15:16 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures
... This gets back to my theory that a large number of programmers
really don't want programming to be easier, and I suspect that's
true especially among RPG programmers. Are more modern (that is,
1970's or later) programming techniques like procedures considered
too "cool", and thus suspect? Is RPG programming supposed to be
hard? Are RPG programmers who make programming look hard considered
more capable than programmers who make it look easy?
 
Cheers! Hans