Re: Change the day of a date

On 2012-06-13, at 3:29 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I would agree, but I've recently been pulled up a manager for having too
many sub procedures with few lines of code in them. I think it's because
the monolithers like to read everything, and as they prefer SEU to LPEX
they find it very difficult to read the whole program.

Sad isn't it.

When I teach Subprocs I often point out that one of the hardest things for
many RPGers to learn is trust! We learnt years ago not to trust subroutine
calls because even if it was a commonly used routine you could never be
sure that in this version some yahoo hadn't changed something. You just
have to beat it into them! I know some people who actually code what should
be internal subprocs in separate sources (and /Copy them) in order to
discourage the dinosaurs and teach them to only look at code when it
appears to be part of the problem. Not sure that works but ...


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com




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