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I agree. I’m currently at a shop that has 30 year old legacy code. It works fine and there is no need to touch it. There is also 20+ year old spaghetti code written by others that get re-done and modernized if need be, or simply cleaned up.

Businesses running these systems aren’t going to spend money and resources to migrate the code to something more modern if there is literally no need for it.

I understand as a developer my wanting to get shops like these more current, but I know what the CTO will ask if I ever entertain the subject.. “why”?


On Oct 1, 2019, at 06:32, David Gibbs via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:09 PM <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/30/2019
11:43:16 PM:
I (sadly) promoted a CL like that a couple of weeks ago. GOTO for a
RCVF loop, no subroutines, just disgusting.

So why didn't you change it to a DOWHILE?


This brings up an important point ... why change something that's working?

Don't get me wrong ... I'm all for improving existing code. But changing
something that isn't in scope is just introducing unnecessary risk.

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