RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures

Well, Rob.  You're still one-a my favo-RITES...;-D

I believe, and some would agree and some would disagree, that issuing a
"Commandment from God" is tripping out, and I believe most would find that
to be an exhibition of very poor people-skills.  There are differences in
management styles, and I was told by one-a my mentors (a Controller in the
"small" $200M company, and I've found in my experience) that the best
managers will use different approaches depending on the individual they are
working with.


And one to eliminate ALL subroutines, at that...!  Are you aware that (in
tests I ran a few years ago, so newer hardware/software may be different) a
BEGSR "call" is twice as fast as a bound call.

As someone (I apologize, I forget who, several iirc) pointed out, when you
are running a batch job over a million bazillion records, then a module
makes one HECK of a performance difference over a program, which is one of
it's many benefits.

So, too, subroutines still have a use in some cases, just like primary files
do.  All that's new is not necessarily for the better, and all that's old is
not necessarily for the worst.  That is an oversimplification.


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| Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:58 AM
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| Subject: Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures
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| I think that what you are saying is that if it's so simplistic that you
| don't want to bother with PI's/PR's then you wouldn't want to bother with
| BEGSR's/EXSR's.  Interesting thought.
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| By the way, I compiled a very simple program with a subroutine in it just
| to see if it generated any messages like RNF#### - list of subroutines.
| Nothing.  Too bad, if there was I bet you could have CHGMSGD and
| kicked up
| the severity to a higher number.  And that would have stopped the
| compiler.  I bet that's a technique not published in "How to Win Friends
| and Influence People".      :-)
|
| Rob Berendt
| --
| "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
| safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
| Benjamin Franklin
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| Hey, maybe have the precompiler search for BEGSR's and kill the compile?
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| Rob, it's not that I'd never RETURN from within a subroutine.  It's just
| that I'd
| never tolerate a one-statement subroutine.  Never.  Don't even go there.
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| GA
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| --- rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
| > And that's a good way to evolve.
| >
| > Stop using subroutines, no matter how simple.  And use subprocedures
| > instead.  While the subroutine may be too simplistic to make sense to
| > bother with the PR's and PI's it's a good discipline to stick
| to it as a
|
| > "Commandment from God" for two to three months just to get into
| practice.
| > And then, only then, go back to using subroutines when it's really
| > simplistic.  Or you have some special need like having RETURN exit the
| > program and not just the subprocedure.  (There are those who feel that
| > exiting a program from a subroutine is a violation of structured
| > programming and is punishable by (your humorous situation here)).
| >
| > Then as you evolve you can decide which subprocedures might make sense
| to
| > move to a service program.
| >
| > Rob Berendt
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