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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>




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