Re: Mi vs C

On 11-Dec-07, at 1:00 PM, Rich Hart wrote:

> I doubt that most of us that still mess with MI do it for  
> efficiency.  It's
> more a labour of love, or a hobby (as with me), or simply nostalgia  
> for the
> old Sys/38 days when "we could work anywhere in the country".

Well the OP appeared to be writing brand new production oriented code  
and that was what triggered my thinking

>
> It's instructive to have some knowledge of MI just to be able to  
> better
> understand what goes on under the covers.  But of course, I would  
> not want
> to write in MI for hardly any practical purpose anymore.  Just to  
> open a
> display file and do simple IO is a LOT of work!


No disagreement - and if you think writing in MI is a pain try  
writing the code that generates that MI in the first place!

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com


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