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  3. November 2005

Re: To ride The Cycle or not to ride (was Re: INZSR weirdness)

Yes, I do rewrite. I once quoted a customer 2 hours to modify a report and took 2 days before I gave up and rewrote it. Using debug, I could not follow the cycle flow-chart and see how things were happening the way they were. Just because RPG heritage had the cycle is no reason to keep it. This 'feature' is a negative feature if you ask me. I've only been on the S/38 & AS/400 for 20 years so I'm sure folks with many more years than I will dissagree. Just my opinion. Glenn Gundermann rick baird writes:
word. 
It's rare that any RPG programmer won't run into a cycle program at
least several times in his career.  do the anti-cyclists or
cycle-deprived rewrite them everytime they have to modify one? 
I feel that RPG programmers should have at least a
basic understanding of the cycle even if they never use it. After all it is
still a feature of the language.

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