Re: COBOL VS RPG

["Mark Walter" <mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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    Hallaleua!!! (Sorry about the spelling). I too am a proponent of the RPG
cycle. I still write matching record programs when the need arises. And do
it all in RPG IV. Heck, the other day, I coded a program described file with
a primary read and a data structure update.
     I feel that you use the tools that best allows you to do the job. If it
is a 15 year old technique, so be it.
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----- Original Message -----
From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: COBOL VS RPG


> More importantly, if you write reports in COBOL, you are essentially,
> writing your own copy of the RPG cycle. The cycle exists because it is the
> "right" way to do reports!
>
> Then again, most RPG programmer's today are told to NOT use the RPG cycle
> and they then turn around and write their own cycle code anyway.
>
> Talk about a waste....
>
> ===========================================================
> R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
>  -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
>  -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator
>
> "The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
>     It's the population that keeps growing!"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 7:12 PM
> Subject: Re: COBOL VS RPG
>
>
> >>At 06:10 PM 12/29/1999 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >>Try converting the RPG cycle into COBOL.  I'd rather give birth to the
> >>Green Bay Packers, all at once, than attempt this.
> >
> >>Al
> >
> >
> >I dunno---  many, many years ago we had 2 S/3/15/D machines.  One shop
was
> >RPG, one was COBOL.  I had occasion to write some COBOL programs from
> >scratch, and I -did- code them using my own version of the RPG cycle.  It
> >made a -very- 'logical' program!
> >
> >Of course, that was back in the days when I could draw the complete RPG
> >cycle from the debugging template in my sleep.  (:
> >
> >--Paul E Musselman
> >PaulMmn@Ix.netcom.com
> >
> >
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