Program structures

["Raby, Steve \(GE Advanced Materials, consultant\)" <steve.raby@xxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I have just spent hours cursing and swearing and trying to get a program to 
work properly, I made a small change regarding a call from another program. 
This program I now curse and condemn to hell for eternity was written in the 
style of a case tool, in the style of not by. That is the mainline consists of 
a number of CASEQ and EXSR statements, these then lead to, obviously, 
subroutines, but some of these subroutines just contain one line, like SETON LR 
and Chain. They are almost impossible to debug if you want to step thru line by 
line. Is it just the Netherlands where these are written? I never came across 
this in the UK, the last company I worked in here in NL one guy was constantly 
trying to get me to write my programs in this style, he convinced my non-techie 
manager that it was the way to go too. Now here I have found at least three 
other "programmers" suffer from this, have I missed something? Is this the new 
thing? Or am I just being over critical?  Now I go to try and finish this damn 
thing off, maybe I should just re-write the damn thing?

Steve

Steve Raby
GEP Contractor (Mulix)
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