RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 851

        My experience has been that this is all in the way knowledge is
transferred.  I've learned both RPGIV and VB with SQL.  When I was taught
RPGIV I created all the files and programs at once.  There was brief
analysis and then straight into the code.  It was all about the code.  When
I took VB the first thing they taught was Microsoft's Lifecycle.  It was
like a religion.  I didn't see a line of code for a year.  Why?  Because
they teach that you don't start coding until the entire database is
completely built.  That's how you get a normalized database.  You take it
away from the programmers. ;)  Now don't get me wrong here.  I know as well
as anyone that you can have windows software written wrong as well.  It's
because Microsoft insists it's taught this way or not at all, the problem
doesn't happen as often.

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Subject: RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 851


My experience has been that if you look at the average AS/400 applications
package, you are going to find that half to 3/4 of the code is written to do
nothing except deal with database anomaly's. In contrast, every time I have
written a system with a normalized database, the amount of code to write is
small and clean.