the ASSET issue again

there's been a lot said in the last couple of days about SSA and AS/SET. while 
i am not a fan of it, i can understand the logic of writing code in AS/SET that 
could then be compiled and run on multiple environments. yes you will sacrifice 
performance, but if the intent was to provide improved functionality at less 
cost, then i can understand the logic. whether this was ever delivered or not 
is another question. 

but what drives me absolutely insane is SSA's practice of commenting out lines 
in both the AS/SET source and in the resulting RPG source. much o the 
complexity in trying to read these damn programs is just trying to decipher 
which lines are still executable statements and which are now comments. my 
guess is that well over half of all statements in their programs are old lines 
of code that are now comments. TAKE THEM OUT AND GIVE US SOURCE PROGRAMS THAT 
CAN BE READ!

chick doe
barton instrument systems

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