RE: Combined-Primary (CP) workstn file

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: James W. Kilgore [mailto:qappdsn@ibm.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:36 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Combined-Primary (CP) workstn file
> 
> 
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> 
> CP workstn files are out of vogue because they depend on the 
> ever efficient,
> subtle, cycle.
> 
> Just to be a bit cheeky: If one can learn the concepts of OO, 
> inheritance and
> polymorphism what the heck makes a cycle so hard to figure out? =;-o
> 

Don't want to start another cycle war, but...
I think I've successfully resisted the cycle because RPG wasn't my first
language.  I was used to writing my own event loops.   I'm lazy and don't
like to work with other people's code if i can reinvent the wheel myself.
<g>  To me not learning the cycle was just another case of avoiding studying
someone else's code. 

James is probably right, unfortunately he often is.  I'm still to lazy to
learn it.  I'm also the one who wrote linear search routines for a long time
because he didn't want to learn which indicators went where with lokup.  (no
binary search suggestions, please--the one in the C library works great.)

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