Re: the ASSET issue again

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean, I got a BMR not a month ago with RPG code.

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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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