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Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Thomas Gagne <tgagne@wide-open-west.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>   
>> At some point, all that expression and composition has an ingress and 
>> egress, and what lies between them is a reusable, repeatable code.  No 
>> one really wants to write all that SQL by hand every time so it's put 
>> inside a macro.  To increase the macro's value parameters are applied to 
>> make it a function.  Now we're cooking with fire.
>>     
>
>      I think you  are going in the wrong direction.
>
>      All what SQL?  The SQL in my app is a very small part of it.  The
> presentation code is much, much bigger.  It is the presentation code
> that I would like to cut down.
>   
In my commercial finance system, 37% of the source code is SQL.  43% is 
presentation (PHP).  When you say your SQL is a small amount, what does 
that mean?  Are able to count it?

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