Re: Need Some RPG Technical Questions

In my opinion a good programmer would not write two times the same program
(even if the subfile changes it is the same logic). This adds nothing
exciting, just makes the job boring, struggeling with the same errors all
the time.

After I created the second program to display the records from a file in
subfile I have thought about an automated way to do this, so right now I am
using a code generator I have created. You just have to define the table
structure and all the programs are there - simple as that, in 5 minutes. So
I have more time to think about nice algorithms rather printing a simple
subfile. But probably this is just because I am lazy, lazy to do the same
thing twice when you can easily automate it.

Mihai
http://www.rpgcrud.ro

On 3/12/08, Esben Kiel Sørensen <eksor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Asking a programmer to build a subfile program by hand is like asking a
bricklayer to explain the process of makeing a brick...

Why should he care, if he know how to use it... Like 95% of RPG
programmer wouldn't be able to do it. Does that make them bad programmers?


Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen

Esben Kiel Sørensen
Software Developer
XA CC - System Architecture
Group IT

Vestas Wind Systems A/S
Tel.: +45 9730 7126
Mob.: +45 2546 3906
E-mail: eksor@xxxxxxxxxx





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Subject: Re: Need Some RPG Technical Questions


Tommy Holden wrote:

am i the ONLY one who still codes subfiles from scratch???

Definitely -

I haven't written a subfile program from scratch in almost twenty years,
when I first wrote the template programs that I use.

Also - working in JDE shops has also given me the opportunity to learn and
use the JDE CASE tool to create subfile inquiry and maintenance programs.
Four hours of work in the CASE tool gets me up to 90% of the code I need
for a fairly complex subfile maintenance program, saving me several days of
work compared to hand-coding the program...

- sjl



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