{"id":7710,"date":"2013-06-10T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arcadsoftware.com\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:17:17","slug":"four-hundred-stuff-old-rpg-into-modern-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arcadsoftware.com\/arcad\/news-events\/arcad-press-articles\/four-hundred-stuff-old-rpg-into-modern-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"FOUR HUNDRED STUFF &#8211; Old RPG into Modern RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:60%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.2%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.2%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:50px;\"><p>There\u2019s a world of difference between old RPG and modern RPG. For one thing, if your code is written in RPG III or an earlier version, almost no one except for veteran RPG programmers can make much sense of it. And because all modern codes are modular, the old stuff doesn\u2019t mix well with the new. That, in a nut shell, is why ARCAD Software, in conjunction with IBM Rational, created its RPG converter tool for migrating legacy RPG to free form RPG.<\/p>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-small button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itjungle.com\/fhs\/fhs101513-story01.html\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read this article<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcad-press-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FOUR HUNDRED STUFF - Old RPG into Modern RPG - ARCAD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s a world of difference between old RPG and modern RPG. 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