Re: Reasons for using RPGIV

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

I doubt any argument is going to make a difference. Just another RPG
programmer terrified of change.

The reasons to use RPG IV would run for pages. Readability, maintainability,
That anyone would want to continue to write programs with 6 characters
variables, fixed format, global variable declaration still boggles my mind.
Not only the hell of writing them but maintaining them.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:54 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am involved in a philosophical argument with one of the lead developers
> in
> the JDE/Oracle V5R4 shop where I have been working as a consultant for the
> last five years.
>
> If I understand her correctly, her argument is that as a JDE shop that we
> should NOT be using RPGIV at all, and that we should be writing /all/ code
> in RPG/400.  I don't necessarily disagree, in the case of simple mods to an
> existing JDE program, but I would argue that /all/ new development should
> be
> done in free-form RPGIV.
>
> Background:
> We currently have a mixture of OPM and RPGIV code.
>
> Some of the RPGIV is programs that have simply been run through CVTRPGSRC
> to
> convert them to fixed-form ILE source, other RPGIV code includes several
> including entire sub-systems which have been written entirely in free-form
> RPGIV utilizing service programs and binding source.
>
> Other than hitting the RPG/400 compiler limits on the number of arrays,
> tables, and files (which necessitates converting the program to RPGIV in
> order for it to compile successfully), she wants me to present five
> compelling reasons to justify the use of RPGIV, particularly free-form
> RPGIV
> code.
>
> Any thoughts?  I need ammunition!
>
> - sjl
>
>
>
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