Re: Benefits of Sub-procedures

["Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> But I am running into an ever increasing
> number of programmers that ask the basic
> question "Why use a sub-procedure when it
> does the same thing as a program call?"

Do they write sub-programs to do one thing, and one thing well?
Do their applications written this way provide acceptable performance and
maintainability?
Do they write sub-procedures to do one thing and one thing well?
Do their applications written this way provide acceptable performance and
maintainability?

If the answers to all of the above are yes, then the question makes perfect
sense.  They're already writing very modular, re-usable code that is easy to
maintain and runs acceptably.  What benefits do they accrue from
sub-procedures? (they have already brushed aside use in an expressions.)

I guess this is how I would approach this sort of question, although it
doesn't sound like I would spend too much time on it.  It sounds like
they've made their minds up already.
  --buck