Re: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

In a similar vein there was an episode of Top Gear (UK car show) on
before Christmas where Jeremy Clarkson hooked up a Ford Cosworth engine
to a food processor.


Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote :

I don't believe Nifty has to be hard to read or understand. It would
be nifty if my i server were interfaced with a toaster, a coffee maker
or espresso machine, a griddle and a refrigerator to have breakfast
ready when I wake up.

Jim

On 1/7/09, Charles Sallee <csallee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Re: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

I am afraid of any effort to write "Nifty code". All code should be
written in the most explanatory fashion with plenty of notes & white
spaces.

When you write thousands of lines of code a year, you even have
trouble returning to your own old code later on and understanding
that you have previously coded when they are not fully documented.

many things To me, "Nifty code" by definition is hard to understand
used the technique many times your self. What is the use in saving
if you have not lines of code if you have to add lines of
you are doing?

With the continuously improving technologic of the System i there is
really no need to worry about writing more efficient coding.
Developers' time is better spent writing more code for their
organization.

documentation to explain what That's just my opinion. I have coded
not done much coding as it pertains to the Internet on the i5.
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1000s of lines of code but I have This is the RPG programming on the
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