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  3. April 2017

Re: New to RPG

On 30 April 2017 at 01:58, D*B <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the main problem is: who is using all the nice possibilities of modern
RPG!!! Even using totally free lots of programms are written in a style,
thinking in punching cards: large monolithic programms, right hand side
comments, moving *ON to *INLR, using available components (I'm providing
some fro free) by copiing to the own monoliths, trying to use binder
language (without understanding how it works) to avoid rebinding-

I agree with your assessment, but I especially agree with this.

Copying code without understanding it is killing us.
If we understood it, we'd never copy it -- we'd write better.
Not because the code is old per se, but because that pattern is no
longer the best fit to the problems it is being twisted into solving.
--buck

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