Re: Fixed-format continued lines -- WDSCI-L

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I had to laugh at that "cutting edge" comment, Booth.

I'm putting some presentations together for folks at my work to move them off of (ugh!) fixed-format RPG.

One of the lines in my spiel is "Free form has been around for 14 years - it is NOT a fad".

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer – ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
OCEAN User Group

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To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
From: booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:36:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Fixed-format continued lines

Isn't the best work-around to convert each old program to free format as
the first step in any maintenance project, and write only free format
new programs?

Its not as if free format is some brand new cutting edge technology; its
been around a long time.

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