Re: Cycle Programming

["Joe Sam Shirah" <jshirah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    With no intent to flame, I have never understood why so many people
delight in running down cycle programming.  While I'm sure you are the
exception, many of them, when you can pin them down, have no idea how it
really works.  I often also hear the same sort of thing in reverse re Java
vs RPG, C or other languages.

    I try to use the best tool for the job.  For many batch and reporting
tasks that naturally fall into a detail/summary hierarchy, like corp,
division, cost center, dept, it is very difficult to beat RPG cycle
programming with control breaks instead of continually rolling your own.

    But this is a Java Language mailing list, so I'm heading back to writing
an EJB tutorial for devWorks' Java zone.  Be nice if Java had a control
break driven report writer...    ;-)


                                                        Joe Sam

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@partner400.com>
To: <java400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: java to RPG problem


> >> RPG has a useful feature: where most languages have to walk through
> files, RPG can ride around on its logic cycle.
>
> Now I know what a sweet old fashioned boy you are!!  Logic cycle - what's
> the logic cycle?  That's really funny - I've been back coding RPG (after a
> period with PL/I, COBOL and others) for about 15 years now and in all that
> time have only coded one (1) cycle program.  Only reason for that one was
> that IBM wanted the same basic code to be able to run on S/370, S/34 and
> S/36 and .....
>
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
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