Re: Compile error when using field in a subfield data structure

In a message dated 5/12/2004 3:19:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rob@xxxxxxxxx 
writes: 
> Die hard fixed formatters will never find a business benefit to convert to 
> free format.  You could show them a million ways that things are just not 
> capable, or can't be done without a lot of effort in fixed format and they 
> would redefine the problem to fit their answer.  Or, instead of getting a 
> decent set of tools, they want to stick with this homegrown tool that they 
> wrote in RPGII that insists on a columnar format to document variable 
> usage.  Or they take pride that they've used no new function in RPG since 
> V2R1 that way they can market to customers still running that release. The 
> fact that they've received no new customers running something that old in 
> the last 6 years is meaningless to them.
> 
It's obvious even to the most casual observer, that arrogance abounds among 
the "Free Formers". They seem to forget they are standing on the shoulders of 
their Fathers and forget that sometimes they get carried away with their new 
toys which were usually designed to solve a single problem and not as a "Killer 
Function."
Progress yes, but lets not get caught in the pendulum of "Change for Change's 
sake".

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.