RE: Runtime KLIST change?

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isnt that the point of a 4GL. You dont care about the code it generates,
because its generating your whole application. If your going to fiddle
around with the code afterwards, why bother with the 4GL?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 1:53 PM
>To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: Runtime KLIST change?
>
>
>>
>
>> 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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>L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
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