RE: the ASSET issue again -- BPCS-L

Hi Ho.

        I for one use ASSET/ADK as a development tool and find it quite
useful. I am not an RPG or RPG-ILE programmer and never intend on being one.
ASSET/ADK offers is a simple alternative to RPG. You almost can do
everything with this tool. Yes, RPG is more powerful but,  a program written
using ASSET will take the same amount of time to run as a program written in
RPG. The code generated from a program using Asset will be much smaller than
a program written using RPG, it will take me a few days to come up with a
complex ASSET/ADK program where it may take a week or more using RPG.

        If the execution time for a program is the same and the length in
time to write the code using ASSET is lesser than RPG. Why knock the
product. 

        You are correct in the saying that the source provided by SSA for
BPCS is pretty bad. We call it spaghetti language over here, but lets not
forget SSA are in the business of making money. If they had two line source
for every program they had, we would not need them. 

        PS: It think the people who dislike ASSET are RPG programmers.  

        Marc Lacelle
        Royal Canadian Mint
        
        

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> From:         Chick Doe[SMTP:Cdoe@barton-instruments.com]
> Reply To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Saturday, September 16, 2000 3:32 PM
> To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      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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