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Hi Ho. Actually final Hi Ho. It's been a blast folks. BPCS-LMidrange is a service to exchange BPCS experience and tricks of the trade. I hope I helped a few of you with certain submissions of mine. I probably insulted a few of my colleagues with that ASSET/ADK versus RPG comparison, for that I'm sorry. > ---------- > From: L. S. Russell[SMTP:leslier@datrek.com] > Reply To: BPCS-L@midrange.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:05 AM > To: BPCS-L@midrange.com > Subject: Re: the ASSET issue again > > 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 > > +--- > > | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List! > > | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com. > > | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com. > > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > > | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com > > +--- > +--- > | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com > +--- > +--- | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com +---
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