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A concrete example.

I am now working for a company where i build a new order system.
I use RPGIV for this, and a layered (MVC) architecture (big word but alas).
Green screen programs just have UI handling, nothing else.
Business logic is in its own service program, etc.

I am happy i'm "allowed" to set it up this way.
Normally, it is even difficult to just introduce a service program with some
utility procedures in it.
Let alone an "MVC" approach.

The reason i am allowed is because this customer has a more technical C
background.
And doesn't like RPGIII that much, especially the monolithic programs.

So because the customer has a C background, i can set up a sane
architecture.
This really is an exception.
Most of the time the customer knows RPG, and only RPG, and thus....

Isn't that strange.
A "technical" person likes it modularized.
A "business" person (the ones knowing RPG and are fine with it) likes it
monolithic.

Apparantly the monolithic approach is more "business" like.


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Schmidt, Mihael <Mihael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

<quote>
Besides, if you are a programmer you are a TECHNICAL person first, business
second.
Yes, second.
Thats your job, computers, programming, yes?
Thats technical, first.
</quote>
IMO that is a fact that every programmer working on an IBM i platform
should be able to agree on.

<quote>
We have enough business types making excel macros.
Then we have business types making RPG programs.
Thats why we have a big mess.
</quote>
That is the sad reality I have lived through the last couple of years.

My 2 cents

Mihael
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