Re: Program structures

I'm with ya' brother. I maintain a bunch of older style programs written in
this vein. It's ridiculous. So, it happens in the USA as well.

Normally, the first thing I do is convert the bloody thing to RPG IV. That
at least gives me some breathing room in the source.

And yes, there were times when I just rewrote the damn thing.

Good Luck,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


                                                                           
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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 a!
 nd finish this damn thing off, maybe I should just re-write the damn
thing?

Steve

Steve Raby
GEP Contractor (Mulix)
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