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  3. August 2007

Re: RPG Cycle (was: RPG IV Certification)

HA!

This is complete bunk. You can write RPG without a cycle. In fact, most RPG
programs only use the file open and close functions from the cycle. And you
can replace them with User Open/Close.

You do not have to 'deal' with the cycle. It is ALWAYS there, but there are
so many RPG programmers who don't even know what it is - where are they
'dealing' with it?





On 8/20/07 3:48 PM, "James Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Trevor Perry wrote:
It is never appropriate - for one simple reason. If you have people who do
not understand the cycle in your environment, and you get hit by a bus....

If they "do not understand The Cycle" then they have no business
claiming to be competent in RPG.

Period.

It is impossible to code an RPG program without dealing with The Cycle
in one way or another: even if you disable it completely by setting on
LR in the very first executable statement, you are still dealing with it.



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