Re: Difference bet. Primary and Full procedural file.

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Capt j,

>In order for someone to write and post an alternative to be judged, we would
>need a judge that didn't know the logic cycle,

>From the sounds of things, many people on this board would qualify as not
knowing the cycle.

>to prove the point that maintenance is more readily "do-able" ...
>and doesn't have to know an obscure "cycle running in the background" type 
>thing...

Most routine maintenance will fall in the category of making changes other than
the level breaks, so even if the programmer had no clue what the cycle was
doing, by using appriopriately named subroutines or procedures they better be
able to readily figure out what section of code needs to be changed -- or I'd
submit they still don't qualify as "competent".

And if the maintenance *is* to change the level breaks, that is fairly
self-evident too -- even if you don't understand how / why it works.  It does
*not* take years of experience working with a punched card reader to understand
level breaks.

Doug