RE: Programming by the mathematically challenged

Lol, I once worked with a guy who ALWAYS inserted at least one blank
line between each opcode. We always used to joke that he must be
getting paid by K-loc's... I wound up writing a program to remove blank
lines from his source. I seem to recall he was also one of those how
wrote "structured RPG" using the A0100, A0101, A0200, B0100 conventions.
Ugh!

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Armbruster
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 3:22 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: RE: Programming by the mathematically challenged

My first guess: Tequila. :)

Maybe he was compensated by lines of code written.

Tom Armbruster

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Dow
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:12 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Programming by the mathematically challenged

Hi Everyone,

It's Friday, so I thought I'd share the fun.

I had to work with this vintage 2003 RPG program with the following
code:

C $AMT1 IFNE 0
C ADD $AMT1 $AMT
C ENDIF
C $AMT2 IFNE 0
C ADD $AMT2 $AMT
C ENDIF

I just wonder what was going through the programmer's mind: performance
improvement? i.e. an IF is so much faster than an ADD?

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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