Since we're drifting, I'm remembering another method I think they called
Structured Programming or maybe Top Down Programming. I was never an
application programmer so I don't know all the terms. But I think I
came across it one day while helping a COBOL programmer. Their main
routine called a procedure, so I looked for that member. It had only
one line, which called another procedure, so I looked at that member.
That last member only had one line, a MOVE statement which could have
been in the main routine and saved me some browsing.
All I can guess is this was designed from the top, with separate members
for various functions "just in case" those functions needed to be
expanded later and the sections could be better reused. But I'll bet a
donut that never happened, and the end result was the structuring made
things more complex and confusing.
On 9/24/2022 10:12 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
Sorry for this topic drift...
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