Re: Development Standards

On Dec 12, 2016, at 8:59 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

While I've not done a cycle program in a long time I will agree they are
terrifically efficient. The blocking inherent in them is awesome. I had
to do a bunch of manual adjustment of blocking to come even close to what
a cycle program could do. I posted some time trials a long time ago to
this list


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From: "Joni V." <joni_vanderheijden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/11/2016 07:25 AM
Subject: Re: Development Standards
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



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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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:46
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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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