RE: RE: WDSC and Linux
"Joe Pluta" <joepluta-Kokj9vFzZubAKuVPhbf8BAC/[email protected]>
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> From: Joe Pluta > > > From: Michael Naughton > > > > Using your definition, I bet most of us are "application > assemblers". But > > I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that. > > I disagree. In the old days of BPCS (and indeed most ERP packages), if > something went wrong, you could debug the code line by line and eventually > find the problem, even if it wasn't your program. And in so doing, you > began to learn what made that whole system tick. And by the way, Mike, I know I'm being part Luddite, part Don Quixote when I talk like this. I realize that software has gotten so complex that nobody can be expected to know all of it. But I'm afraid that we're starting to rely on technology we don't really know that well, and nobody really knows anything about certain parts - crucial parts. Is it good or bad? Aaron would say good. He thinks I'm a dinosaur. You're probably leaning towards good yourself because you see the direct benefits. Me, I'm remembering the days of code generators gone bad, or screen scrapers that only supported certain things, and we ended up with code we couldn't maintain because NOBODY KNEW WHAT IT DID. <shudder> Maybe I am a dinosaur, I dunno. But I do know that with the simple model II JSP (that is a servlet calls business logic to gather data and sends it to a JSP) that there's hardly a line of code in there that you can't debug yourself, and that makes me real comfortable when I recommend it to my clients. Joe _______________________________________________ This is the CODE/400 Discussion & Support (CODE400-L) mailing list To post a message email: CODE400-L-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/code400-l or email: CODE400-L-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l. NOTE: WDSc for iSeries disucssion has it's own mailing list. Information can be found at http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/wdsc-l