Re: Legacy code. Was:Dates

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Tim,

In a message dated 97-09-16 08:33:23 EDT, you write:

<<snip>>
> I am aware of benefits to using the cycle, but I am also aware of a
>  recent book on performance from Duke Press (I think) which appeared to
>  imply that most of the time there is no benefit to using the cycle
>  performance-wise.

Then the book is wrong!  Unless you write a CL to call it performing an
OVRDBF to block records (MORE overhead), only logic-cycle programs
automatically block your primary file.

>  It takes a fair bit of experience to be able to look
>  at a cycle program and understand quickly what it is doing, and quite
>  frankly I have enough fun trying to keep up with ILE and all the other
>  enhancments which keep coming my way, without looking at a programming
>  model (i.e. the cycle) which probably hasn't been used in anger for
>  five years...

True, but "the cycle" is used in many prevalent packages and even MORE legacy
code.  Besides, I get a kick out of someone asking me "where in the HECK does
this thing actually READ anything?"!!
<<snip>>

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us could not
succeed." --(Mark Twain)
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