Re: Convert from free to fixed

["sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom -

I certainly do NOT think that it makes life difficult for the programmer. 
In fact, IMO, good programmers should prefer /free code over fixed.

I work in a shop that has over 50 instances of highly customized JDE World 
RPG/400 code mixed with RPGIV code.  We have as much or more code than you. 
On a daily basis, I work with both fixed and free-form code.

I would prefer to not have fixed and free-form code in the same program, but 
it is not against shop standards and done occasionally.

As for me, I prefer free-form, and all new development is done in /free.

- sjl



Tom wrote:
  You don't think that multiple styles of coding mixed
   together makes life difficult for the programmer ?
  I do.



Michael Ryan wrote:
 Why does that maintain the integrity? It maintains the sameness, and there
  may be some value to that (though I don't believe so). But I believe that
  writing code using the best tools available makes sense. Of course, you 
also
  have to think about the others that maintain it. If they cant'/don't 
handle
  free form, procedures, APIs, etc, then those techniques shouldn't be used.


Tom wrote:
> So, If you have a program that has lots of subroutines already, and you 
> have to
> modify this program, Do you use procedures or subroutines ? Keep in mind 
> the
> base software package has about 20,000 programs with 2 million lines of 
> code
> and all of them have subroutines and no procedures.
> To keep the integrity of the system, I think you should use subroutines.