Re: the ASSET issue again

[Jeff Holzman <Holzman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To clarify, I am not saying that a programmer can or can not get more
done with AS/SET than RPG.  

The original email was unclear to me in what it's author was saying.  I
posed my email as a question to get the author to clarify his/her point. 

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I think Jeff has focused on the key issue.  Assuming that we are in agreement
> that a programmer can get much more work done in less time writing in AS/Set
> than in RPG, but the resulting code is not going to be the same level of
> quality than if it was written by a human, can the pros & cons of better
> quality code produced at different rates by different approaches be measured?
> 
> Perhaps there are other CASE tools out there that I should be asking my
> management to get me, other than my current requests for LANSA, AS/Set,
> TAATOOLS & Robot.
> 
> There are people who program in AS/Set & are comfortable with it & do not
> want to learn RPG, while there are people comfortable in RPG who do not want
> to learn AS/Set.  It is perhaps more important to hear from people who work
> in both.
> 
> > From: Holzman@concentric.net (Jeff Holzman)
> >
> >  Are you saying that:
> >
> >  (1) A good RPG programmer can do in 15 lines of RPG what an AS/SET
> >  programmer does in 100 lines of AS/SET code?
> >
> >  i.e., even ignoring the performance considerations, are you saying that
> >  developing applications with AS/SET takes about 6 to 7 times more work
> >   than coding the same functionality in RPG.
> >
> >  Or, are you saying that
> >
> >  (2) A good RPG programmer can do in 15 lines of RPG, what a program
> >  written with AS/SET would generate 100 lines of RPG for.
> >
> >  If this is the case, how many lines of AS/SET would the programmer
> >  need to write to get the same functionality as the 15 lines of RPG.
> >
> >  i.e., is there ignoring the performance of the RPG code generated by
> >  AS/SET,
> >  is there a productivity benefit in development and maintenance
> >  using AS/SET compared to RPG.  If so how big of a benefit, and in what
> >  areas are AS/SET's strengths and weaknesses?
> 
> Al Macintyre  ©¿©
> MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02
> running on AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of
> Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical
> sub-assemblies
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