Re: the ASSET issue again

Nick,

In a message dated 9/18/00 9:55:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
nick@galaxy.ltd.uk writes:

> I beg to differ. In my opinion ASSET creates RPG source which is larger by a
>  huge amount than that which a competent RPG programmer would code. I also
>  believe that the compiled object is much larger and runs more slowly.Anyone
>  agree with me?

I'll both agree and disagree with you.  I'll agree that (one month, anyhow) 
SSA's "corporate line" was that a well-written AS/Set program was 
approximately 2.5 times larger than a well-written RPG program.  This was 
part of my post years ago about the "CASE Crunch" that most shops, not just 
AS/Set, went through when they upgraded to software generated by a CASE tool 
on the same system on which they ran traditional 3GL programs.  There was 
simply not enough memory (and with the advent of SQL, processor and DASD) to 
handle the larger load.

HOWEVER, part of that 2.5 equation involved code that WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN 
INCLUDED in a traditional RPG program.  AS/Set makes it easy to check lock 
statuses, the status of calls to other programs, and include functions that 
would normally have been made a procedure call in a traditional RPG 
environment (that probably would never have been written).  AS/Set also makes 
F4 and help text easy to implement, although pricey from a code perspective.  
AS/Set keeping track of my end statements saves me as much time as being able 
to perform all of these functions put together in traditional code.

And how much well-written RPG code do you see, anyhow?

JMHO,

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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