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Buck wrote:
Buck, your experience obviously differs from mine. I've trained RPG II programs to write RPG III (years ago before IV), but the RPG III programmers' eyes clouded over at program-described files. .-)In my opinion, if a programmer can understand RPG IV, she can understand RPG II just as easily.
I'm in favour of having programmers do the development, rather than try to have a tool do a mass conversion. I believe that in the end, you'll need those skills to maintain the modern application, so why go through the trouble of learning a tool on top of learning the new skills?Agreed - for the most part. I go through a manual two step conversion whenever I convert RPG II programs: First to III, compile, and then straight to IV (and /free form usually). Depending upon the OCL, though, converting it to CL can be much more labor-intensive and time-consuming. On the other hand, as you said, it is a learning experience!
* Jerry C. Adams *IBM System i5/iSeries Programmer/Analyst B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* * voice 615.995.7024 fax 615.995.1201 email jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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