RE: Offload from the AS/400

["Leland, David" <dleland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well Hank, I gotta toss my vote in your favor.  I'm dealing with just
such a situation right now.  "Junk programming" I call it.  And yes, it
is the managers fault for not caring or leading.  Now, I've got to deal
with it and it is very unpleasant.  And, unfortunately, the manager
didn't care enough to enforce some kind of documentation requirements. 
I'm faced with entire RPG programs without a single line of
documentation.  What a mess!!!!

Dave

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>From:  HankHeath@aol.com[SMTP:HankHeath@aol.com]
>Sent:  Wednesday, November 05, 1997 1:13 PM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: Offload from the AS/400
>
>In a message dated 97-11-05 12:48:01 EST, atostain@crecomp.com (Art
>Tostaine,
>Jr.) wrote:
>
><< Guess what, the 400 is slow! >>
>
>I've been dealing with this statement for years. It is an absolute
>falsehood.
>Sorry, guys, but it is. The AS/400 is a damned fast machine.
>
>The applications that I have seen written for it are some of the worst
>garbage I've had to deal with, though. The competency of many of the
>RPG
>programmers in creating a decent system has been missing. Why? Because
>most
>of the programmers were "grown," not developed. [Hey, he's a decent
>operator.
>Let's gie him a chance to write programs.]
>
>IMHO, the main problem this platform has is the level of
>professionalism of
>its developers. Be honest. Those of you in the systems arena (many of
>the
>readers of this list): how often do you face a run-away application
>that
>*could* run so much better if the programmers only knew what they were
>doing?
>
>I realize that I'm not making any friends with this statement, but I am
>tired
>of the blame going in the wrong direction. The only crew that writes
>worse
>code IMHO is the VB crew. I do not propose certifying programmers. That
>doesn't work. But I do propose that managers could do a much better job
>of
>leading their programming staff.
>
>Hank Heath
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