Re: Fix or rewrite? -- MIDRANGE-NONTECH

Subject: Re: Fix or rewrite?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:45:03 -0600
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Mike Cunningham wrote:

If you can't justify it, don't to a total rewrite. Instead, as each
new fix comes along, spend some time bringing it up to modern specs.

Yeah, problem is, some of the things I would consider as basic to a rework effort would be using procedures ... but programs that are compiled with '*DFTACTGRP' can't use procedures. Converting a program to use a non-default activation group is trivial, but it would need to be heavily tested. This is where the justification problems come in.

david

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