Re: Cycle Programming

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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:08:43 AST
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Subject: Re: Cycle Programming

> With no intent to flame, I have never understood why so many people
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delight in running down cycle programming.

Indeed. Neither do I. It's about
the only good thing that's unique to RPG, and
if I'm not mistaken, almost
everything original I've ever written in RPG uses
"The Cycle" for SOMETHING
(usually cyclical user interaction, since I rarely
access database files
from RPG). If I'm not writing a "cycle program," and
some other language
(e.g., Java, C, MI, CL, PL/I, BASIC, QBASIC, FORTRAN,
Pascal, even COBOL)
can do what's required to solve the problem at hand, then I
use another
language.

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J.Lampert