Re: Full free form and /copy or /include

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Preaching to the choir!

We all agree: transform, modernize, or go boil your head :)

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 5:02 PM aec <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Around 2016 or 2017 they decided they needed to do something. They
> started shopping for a software suite but somebody at IBM convinced them
> to modernize the code they have. They trained the programmers that
> wanted to learn new stuff, and started using guidelines and rules, and
> they encourage reasonable conversion of old code to free-format RPG.
> *Yay*! And that's when I came on board, they were looking for current
> skill.
>
> They call it "technical debt" when you don't code it like you should the
> first time, but guaranteed an old shop with lots of old code has a
> subroutine copied all over the place that can be consolidated into one
> or two procedures. Lots of places with 50 lines of code that could go
> into one SQL statement.
>
> </end soapbox>