Re: Standards and Egos (was RE: ILE Propaganda)

Peter, companies with more diverse settings manage to keep standards in
place and benefit from them. It isn't easy, but the overall benefit is big.

Sure there are many obstacles. The first obstacle is the willingness of
those involved.

But I don't think it would be a good idea to try and go rewrite all the
existing code into the newly adopted standards! That would sure kill a lot
of man hours!

More, you would adopt new standards and a timetable for implementing them.
The idea being that in five years or ten years the evolution of the code
base would make it far easier for programmers to deal with. Otherwise, in
five years or ten years, it will be harder to deal with and more and more
time will be spent dealing with the issues of non-standard code.

What if JD Edwards or SAP didn't follow any development standards? If it is
a benefit to them, could it possibly be a benefit to you?


----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:24 AM
Subject: RE: Standards and Egos (was RE: ILE Propaganda)


>
>
> Fair enough, provided that you have a relatively small application.
>
> I'm talking about several thousand programs, of which (maybe) 25% is the
same in
> all countries.
>
> The other ones have been changed or even replaced to cope with local
> requirements.
>
> Moreover, the different countries have other CCSID's (which is tricky but
can be
> overcome) and OS/400 levels ranging from 3.2 to 4.4.
>
> Also, I don't think management will be thrilled about spending several
> man-months if not years on re-writing programs "that already do the
thing".
>
> Just to put your suggestion into perspective.
>
> Peter Colpaert
> Analyst-Programmer
> Honda Europe NV
> Langerbruggestraat 104
> B-9000 Gent (Belgium)
>
> Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com
> ----------
> Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released. Beta
is
> Latin for 'still doesn't work.'
> ----------
>

Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net
If you believe that the best technology wins the
marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.


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