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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. -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Campin Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 6:04 PM To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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.
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