Re: Need Some RPG Technical Questions -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Need Some RPG Technical Questions
From: Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:09:31 -0400
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Esben Kiel Sørensen wrote:

Asking a programmer to build a subfile program by hand is like asking a bricklayer to explain the process of makeing a brick...
Why should he care, if he know how to use it... Like 95% of RPG programmer wouldn't be able to do it. Does that make them bad programmers?

I think you're probably right that most RPG programmers (myself included) wouldn't remember all the specific details of writing a subfile program from scratch. I don't think that makes them bad programmers - that's why we have manuals an reference guides.

I would expect that most could sketch out the basic structure in pseudo-code. It would be a sad state of affairs if the same 95% didn't at least have a vague idea of how their templates worked.

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