Re: Cases in AS400

[Kaynor@xxxxxxx]

With apologies for jumping in late... I'd just like to take umbrage with  the 
disparaging statements about generated code.
 
I used Synon/2e (now Advantage:2e) for eight years before I learned  RPG.  
That was reality for me.  I still use it without viewing the  generated code, 
and in fact interact with vendor code generated in  COBOL (which I also don't 
look at).  The "code" I care  about is in the Action Diagram.  The biggest 
benefit of a  CASE tool is the ability to work at a higher level of abstraction 
than the 3GL  provides.
 
Just as I don't look at the machine code generated by the compiler, I  should 
not look at the HLL code generated by the CASE tool.  When I do, it  is 
because of my ignorance of the CASE tool or a bug in its generater, and  
neither 
should be tolerated.
 
The programmers whom I see looking at generated code are usually looking  for 
warm-fuzzies about what they just created, or don't understand how the CASE  
tool works, and are using the generated code to understand what it  does.   
Neither is an efficient use of their time.   They  should learn how to program 
IN THE TOOL, not use it to "manipulate code."  
 
I have lots of respect for your posts, Rob, and David, and I missed  Peter's 
original post, so this may not be germane to his original  point.   But, I 
contend that all of you miss the point  of using a CASE tool when you disparage 
its generated  code.  
 
--Chapin Kaynor
  Vermont
 
 

date:  Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:54:19 -0500
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: Cases  in AS400

I agree David.  I used to use AS/SET and that code was,  and still is, 
ugly.  In fact they still convert 10 character field  names down to 6 
characters.

Sometimes I wonder if they do this  stuff just to discourage you from 
looking at the generated code, stay the  he!! out, and only use the case 
tool to manipulate code.

Rob  Berendt
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Peter Vidal wrote:
> SYNON?  Ugly code....

I think all case tools generate ugly code ... but the  theory is, you use
the case tool to manage generate the code, so who cares  how ugly it is.

That is, of course, a theory only.

Reality,  obviously, is another story.

david

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