Re: Runtime KLIST change?

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

>

> Forgive me for tossing my two cents in, but obviously you have never seen code
> written by SSA. SSA, the "authors" of BPCS (Big Piece Of Computer SH*%) use a
> 4GL tool called asset to generate all their product.  If you like I will send
> an example. But trust me when I say RPG generated by this bleeding edge
> technology is the epitomy of unmaintainable code.



> I have never seen a piece of unmaintainable code that was written with some
> kind of leading edge technology. Always the opposite. 2 or 3 thousand line
> mainlines with the same logic repeating 10 times in 10 different versions
> and one thousand line subroutines doing twenty different functions and all
> doing what could have been done in a few hundred lines of code if properly
> designed. Why engineer code when you can just start pounding code?

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