As a young one, the problem I have with cycle programs is not that I don't understand them or can't use them.
- They lead to monolithic programs
- Are harder to read
- More difficult to maintain
- Blocks the use of newer features
- The style of a cycle program is significantly different from linear programs.
So taking the arguments above into account, our more experienced / older technical experts agreed to disallow them in our coding standards.
I have seen one new cycle program in the last four years, it was a one-shot program for a migration of the database where almost all records from a file had to be updated. I have to admit it was very performant.
Joni
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:46
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Development Standards
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Raul A Jager W <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If we, old ones, where able to learn it, the young should be able to. It
is a tool specially designed to generate reports, probably the best in the
industry, why not use it? The fact that other languages don't have it, is
a dis advantage that we do not need to copy.
Agree 100%. Take the "don't use the cycle" to it's logical conclusion and
you're saying "Don't use feature X because it's not available in every
language out there."
And no, the cycle is not the answer to every programming issue.
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