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On 3/14/24 11:20 AM, Vance Stanley via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Seems wrong to code using features from the 60's like the cycle.
. . .
Theres something to be said about writting code that can be
maintenanced by others.
*shrug*
To me, it seems wrong to ignore (and forcibly suppress) a built-in DO
UNTIL loop that can either give you a ride through an entire file, or
serve (with LR slaved to KC) as an event-loop for an interactive program.
And it's not MY fault that new programmers are not being trained to use
the most unique and idiomatic features of languages, simply because
they're old (and/or because they're unique to the language). All they
have to do, in order to understand how a *simple* Cycle program (by
which I mean, no secondary files or level breaks, just riding through a
primary file) is RTFM.
By way of analogy, this whole business of expecting one programming
language to look like another that is fundamentally different (and
vendors pandering to this expectation) seems an awful lot like an
amateur organist sitting down at the Harvard Flentrop, and playing it as
if it were the "Teenie Genie" in his or her living room.
--
JHHL
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