Re: the ASSET issue again

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Leslie,

In a message dated 9/19/00 1:27:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
leslier@datrek.com writes:

> I am basing my opinons on reading the source code on our system, would
>  you like some samples? 
>  You seem to think AS/SET is god's gift to software design, it really is
>  just a flawed tool that generates what can only be described as a
>  pitiful excuse for RPG.  

Number one, if you have source code one your system and no AS/Set, you have 
some very old code.  SSA hasn't distributed RPG code for a couple of years 
now -- you must generate it out of AS/Set today.

Number two, nobody that has spent any time with it thinks that AS/Set is 
God's gift to software design.  It _does_ generate a pitiful excuse for RPG; 
HOWEVER, many people on this thread have gone so far as to denigrate AS/Set 
as not even being a CASE tool.  You're WRONG if you think this, and the 
design aspect of the conversation explains that several of you do not even 
know what a CASE tool is.  AS/Set is a "lower CASE" tool, a code generator 
that needs a decent database generator.  Design appears as a part of "upper 
CASE", which AS/Set never purported to offer (although SSA hinted at 
integrating such tools at one time).

If you have empty subroutines, either you coded them wrong or SSA coded them 
wrong.  Empty subroutines in a program that will actually compile generally 
indicate an EXSUBR to a routine that has been wholly commented out.  This is 
to prevent an error during RPG compilation for the generated EXSR keyword 
when said S/R does not exist.

>  Who cares wht the Action diagram looks like, it can be perfect and
>  AS/SET will still generate bloated and unreadble RPG. 
<<snip>>

Bloated, yes.  Quite readable if you follow the rules and know what you're 
looking for, though.  Frankly, I've seen _far_ worse code from so-called 
"AS/400 Professionals"...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Anyone who is not liberal in their youth has no heart.  Anyone who is not 
conservative in their adulthood has no brain." -- Winston Churchill
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