Re: the ASSET issue again

Chick,

In a message dated 9/16/00 3:41:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Cdoe@barton-instruments.com writes:

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> but what drives me absolutely insane is SSA's practice of commenting out 
> lines in both the AS/SET source and in the resulting RPG source. much o the 
> complexity in trying to read these damn programs is just trying to decipher 
> which lines are still executable statements and which are now comments. my 
> guess is that well over half of all statements in their programs are old 
> lines of code that are now comments. TAKE THEM OUT AND GIVE US SOURCE 
> PROGRAMS THAT CAN BE READ!

Well, I guess one man's burden is another's salvation!  The commenting is a 
function of how the code is compiled within AS/Set, and I personally love it. 
 There are three levels of commenting provided at compile time.  "F"ull 
commenting places the entire action diagram at the top of the program, and 
then places the pseudo code next to the lines of RPG it generated.  "P"artial 
commenting places only the pseudo code next to the generated RPG, and comes 
in darned handy when you cannot figure out why AS/Set code is behaving in a 
particular manner (this is the default for BPCS), "N"one provides no comments 
other than those typed into the actual code...

HTH,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Anyone who is not liberal in their youth has no heart.  Anyone who is not 
conservative in their adulthood has no brain." -- Winston Churchill
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