Cobol - Re: ALTER design (Was: Code problems with Perform Thru Exit causes fall through)

You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread. To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to this thread please [click here]

Author

Re: ALTER design (Was: Code problems with Perform Thru Exit causes fall through)

Howard Brazee

2007-07-31, 6:55 pm

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:38:40 -0600, LX-i <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote:

>Now my curiosity is more theoretical. How does one think to design
>ALTER in a good way?

The "good" way was the way that allowed enough run-time efficiency to
pay for the cost in maintenance programming.

And that trade-off did exist at one time, before CPU time got cheaper
while programming costs and opportunity costs got more dear.

And before optimizing compilers were as good as they are now.

Sponsored Links