<Response to 'Transact Programs' by Steve Dirickson  >

             Be carefull not to malign COBOL. With the organizational
techiniques I've been
      using for 15+ years I can access any Image DB with 2 COPYLIB
references in the
      Data Division and one COPYLIB reference in the PROCEDURE Division
for each
      Image function with a corresponding PERFORM. Using this technique
with other
      "encapsulation" concepts I've generated 2000+ lines of COBOL code
with 200 lines
      of source. Makes for very fast program generation!
          Don't forget, spaghetti code can be written in any
language.....!



       Eric H. Sand - Software Engineer
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        Laughing? We have dozens of current production programs in
Transact/iX.
        I'd be more likely to laugh at the developer who insists on
doing
        TurboIMAGE programming in C or COBOL, when I can produce the
same
        database functionality an about 1/5th of the time and lines of
code.


        Steve
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