Re: HTML and PDF Reports

["Jim Dillard" <jdillard@xxxxxxxx>]

Amen to that, David!

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:13 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] HTML and PDF Reports

Joe Pluta wrote:
> The primary complaint against EGL from the RPG-CGI advocates is that 
> it's not RPG.  I find this confusing, because with EGL, you don't have

> to learn HTML, JavaScript or CSS, but with RPG-CGI you have to learn
all 
> of those.  

Of course without a good understanding of the generated code, trying to 
fix problems in the code is going to be a nightmare.

In my experience (granted, somewhat limited to a single vendor's 
product, but I have seen the output from other vendors tools), the code 
that is generated is horrendous and next to impossible to debug.

Personally, I think code generators of any kind are a pox on the 
industry.  Using a code generator might be OK for a prototype, but to 
create usable, maintainable, adaptable, applications you need to develop

the code by hand ... or at least use a tool that emits the end result 
code so you have full code comprehension.

Obviously JMHO.

david