Re: Documenting COBOL WAS: Re: Flow chart generators

On Oct 30, 6:50 am, Howard Brazee <how...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:52:34 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"

<dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I understand your concern, Doc, and I shared it when I first embarked into
using third party components. However the keyword here is "application"
["...that would give us deeper knowledge of this part of the _application_
"]

You don't have source code for the IO housekeeping routines that transfer
data to and from your COBOL program, yet you find this an acceptable risk.
By the same token, I don't need source code for a third party Grid component
or serial port server, I plug them into my application and they work as
documented. If they don't (and, oddly enough, that has NEVER happened in
over 10 years now), they would get unplugged pretty quickly and either
replaced or referred to the supplier. Only as a last resort whould I st down
and write this functionality myself.

My environment is somewhat different.  We have a major application
that gets updated periodically along with mods that aren't in the
base.    So a very large part of programmer's work is in code
comparisons and putting the mods back into the changed application.  


That sounds like you need Bazaar to do that for you.


Fewer people and fewer hours are spent in applications development and
far more people and hours are spent in what users would consider
"black box" work.    This is counter to the computer room stereotype
that we thought we were moving away from.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

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