RE: Re[2]: What counts as technically slick?

Thanks Todd. You stated it better than I did.

I didn't say this in the original email but the developers who thought this
was such a great idea, were new to the AS/400. They did other things which
had to be fixed later as well

My point was that complexity in of itself does not add functionality. 

Albert 


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Todd Sabella [SMTP:Todd.Sabella@alltel.com]
        Sent:   Monday, April 09, 2001 2:39 PM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re[2]: What counts as technically slick?

        hese are my sentiments exactly!  I one thought out and designed a 
        whole system for calling a seperate "library of functions" to access

        a file, and in the end came to the conclusion that this wouldn't buy

        me ANYTHING but complexity.
             
        The externally defined files ALREADY provide you with as much of a 
        layer of independence from I/O operations as these external routines

        do!
             
        I guess I could see doing this if I thought the files would soon be 
        located on another computer, on another platform, where I'd save the

        work of re-writing all of the programs involved.   But how often
does 
        something like this ever happen?   It never has, for me.
             
             
             
        On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, York, Albert wrote:
             
        > On the surface it seems like a good idea, but what have you
gained? 
        >
        > I still have to define the record in my program, so if the file
changes I 
        > still have to change all the programs that use that file.
        >
        > Also, if I do the READ in my program, it's obvious what I am
doing, and 
        > error handling is pretty straight forward. If I call a separate
program 
        > which does the READ, what have I gained? I have all the overhead
of a
        > program call and no clear advantage, that I can see. All you're
doing is 
        > adding one more layer of complexity.
        >
        > The only place where a program like this would be useful is if it
is called 
        > from a CL program.
        >
        > Albert York
        >
             
        +---
        | This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
        | To submit a new message, send your mail to
MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. 
        | To subscribe to this list send email to
MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
        | To unsubscribe from this list send email to
MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. 
        | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator:
david@midrange.com 
        +---
        +---
        | This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
        | To submit a new message, send your mail to
MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
        | To subscribe to this list send email to
MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
        | To unsubscribe from this list send email to
MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
        | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator:
david@midrange.com
        +---
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---