Re: Application modernization & re-engineering (was: What should I say to a *nix community?)

[Terrence Enger <tenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:20 -0500, Mike wrote:
> This I agree. We still have s/32 (is that right?) code on the box. I would
> have to have someone walk me through even getting in the right environment
> much less how to program for it, compile it, and hell just to run it.

It's been a while, but I think there is little difference among S/32,
S34, and S/36, both OCL and RPG, when it comes to porting the programs
to System i.  Does anybody remember otherwise?

Cheers,
Terry.

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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:14 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > One thing I would like to throw into the ring on this discussion is this:
> >
> > Even though I fully ascribe to the maxim "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
> > ... there are times that I do believe that an old application SHOULD be
> > re-engineered even though it is still working.
> >
> > With the advent of the more modern languages (RPG included), the effort
> > required to MAINTAIN some of those old applications can become excessively
> > burdensome as to be 'broken' even though they function perfectly.
> >
> > If an application requires sufficient modification ... a complete rework
> > _SHOULD_ be considered so long as the benefit of rewriting it rather than
> > trying to implement the heavy modifications (which would might make it
> > harder to maintain in the future).
> >
> > david
> > (writing from N53 20/W5 39)
> >
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