My question for this person would be: Are you planning to retire soon ?
Someone who says there's no reason to learn new programming techniques is either at the top of their game and knows it all, ready to retire or simply being obstinate :-)
Does she still use the RPG cycle to write reports too ?
I have 1 simple reason why I think free form is better: I can create indented, easy to read code.
Whenever I work on new RPG code or add code to existing older code I try to free it up :-)
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message: 2
date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:35:40 -0500
from: "sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Reasons for using RPGIV
Booth -
I know you're getting old, but try to keep up here - I believe that you got totally lost on this thread. Please re-read what I originally wrote.
I am having a philosophical discussion/argument with a fairly new full-time employee who works for my client company. She has /never/ developed code in free-form RPGIV, and today she expressed the belief that we should instead be doing everything in RPG/400; essentially she is saying that there is nothing in free-form RPG that we cannot already do in RPG/400.
I expressed a strong exception to that statement, and she challenged me to list 5 compelling reasons why RPGIV is better than RPG/400. I'm already up to around 20 reasons, but as Jon Paris has indicated it probably will not change her mind even if I come up with 50.
As I explained in both my OP and a subsequent post, we already have a substantial body of RPGIV fixed-and-free-form code already in production.
The rest of the developers (except one) in the shop have been developing applications in RPGIV/free-form code for several years, so there is /no/ "long learning" process involved for anyone but /her/ in the context of this discussion.
- sjl
Booth wrote:
The one compelling reason for her shop to start the long learning
process involved in bringing a shop's "native intelligence" up to speed,
in my opinion, is that I suspect the software firms offering written
with non-ILE RPG are no doubt looking seriously into converting.
Her shop has every possibility of being caught flat-footed when the new
version is finally shipped.
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