The designers of this mess were (are) called Gull from Long Island, NY. It appears to be one of the many early attempts at a 4GL that are now Roadkill.
I have another client running similar code for a Credit & Collections application called BestCollect. I could write a book on the false starts of programming in MV. My 1 cent Mark Johnson P.S. In response to the 'future grudges' that could occur, and the history of MV programmers, VARs etc, I would definitely insist that If I were to purchase an application from a VAR and the source code were not on my system, that the source code be stored in escrow by a 3rd party. That way, when the software VAR eventually goes out of business, at least the source sode is available. I don't mind following awkward source code. But I do have to have it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [AD] [U2] Basic developments "reverse engineering" tool ? > > One of my clients has procs like this: > > > > HRUN BP SOP1500 > > STON > > HORDER< > > HCUSTOMER< > > HPRODUCT< > > HVENDOR< > > P > > > > whereby the program (BP SOP1500) has the corresponding INPUT statements > for > > the file names and opens them as F1, F2, F3 which is a real bear when > > reading the code. > > Wow - that's just plan mean! There may have been a thought that it was a > way to avoid hard-coding file names in case they ever changed (though that > would be a weak argument), but then they're hard-coded in the PROC, so I > can't see any benefit at all, other than obfuscation. The person that > created it must have had a future grudge against whoever came along to > maintain the code. "Take my job from me, did you? I'll teach you a > lesson." :-) > > Tim Snyder > Consulting I/T Specialist > U2 Lab Services > Information Management, IBM Software Group > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
