Re: Convert from free to fixed

[<dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

... thats the vulnerability of RPG and as/400 and one of the main reasons 
why they are loosing the competition with windows as server system. You'll 
find many questions how to run OS/400 V4R4 with Windows 7 in a Forum or 
Mailinglist, but I didn't see any question about problems with running 
OS/400 V7R1 with Windows 3.11. Quite a lot of my custumors are running 30 
years old RPG applications, maintained in the original style (sometimes you 
see the migration from /36 to as400 in the code style!), and in the same 
room with the as/400, you could see Wintel server farms with the latest 
releases and newest software and the management is working on decisions to 
throw out the outdated as400 applications, they didn't invest anything in, 
during the last 20 years and to migrate to SAP, maybe running 2 years on 
AS/400, followed by p and followed by non IBM.

D*B

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From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:03 PM
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Convert from free to fixed

>  It never ceases to amaze me how quickly some folks on this list will
> take a thread and degenerate it into the age-old debate about coding
> styles, and "modern techniques", such as "fixed. vs. free" etc.
>
> Programming style is like taste in fashion or food; no two individuals
> are exactly the same in their preferences. (Ever heard of, "To each, his
> own"?)
>
> I think that it is quite a remarkable feat that IBM was able to cleverly
> evolve the RPG language from RPGIII to RPG IV, slowly enough to bring
> most people along, without losing too many people along the way, while
> at the same time allowing the "old timers" to continue to code in ways
> familiar to them, while allowing the "newbies" to use the newfangled
> free-form style of RPG IV, all without totally breaking our
> applications.  Gradually, as more of the "old timers" retire, and newer
> generations of developers take over, the newer styles of coding (free
> form, etc.) will eventually prevail.
>
>
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