RE: RE: What is Business Programming?

> From: Paul Holm
> 
> In terms of the app, you can slice and dice business problems anyway
you
> want perhaps trying to get an advantage to your approach.  You have
> challenged the group and asked about metrics.  I have responded with
> concrete examples and results per your request.
> I guess if you want to identify metrics in the categories, we can
start
> with
> 93 minutes.  Your turn.  And then we can analyze different business
> problems
> as was discussed and get some metrics and results on them.

Paul, your applications are the first category, simple file maintenance.
They are DBUs.  You obviously have a nice framework for generating DBU.
Unless I take the time to write the proper skeletons, I cannot achieve
the same results.  I'm pretty sure Nathan's approach will give a
reasonable time, but I don't know.

But I don't really care about this class of code.  It's file
maintenance, and not particularly difficult.  I don't care how many of
these you throw up, eventually you will be done with file maintenance
and then you will have to write the application.  Until then, you are
merely repeating yourself.  One Work With screen is the same as any
other, which is why you can do what you're doing.  We typically assign
junior programmers to these kinds of programs; that's how they learn.
But automating it is good, too.

By the way, you also never answered the issue of the bugs I found in
your code.

Anyway, as soon as I get the forum up and running, I'll be prepared to
provide some real programming challenges.  However, I'm not sure how
long that will take; the open source forum has some bugs that I have to
work through before I can even try it out.

Joe