Re: RPG Cycle

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

Welcome to RPG! Try this link for starters:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/QB3AGZ03/1.3
.1

and this link http://www.news400.com/index400/ is a great resource for
documentation.

When I started programming, I really hated my first taste of RPG -- all
those fixed columns, stuff going on behind your back (in the cycle),
indicators, etc. -- until I had to work at a company that only had RPG II.
After being forced into it, I realized that the cycle does save a lot of
work, especially for report programs with level breaks, enabling smaller
programs that I could write quicker than for example a COBOL program to do
the same thing.

Programming languages are like word processors or spreadsheets in that
people using them tend to like the one they're comfortable and productive
with, no matter what features another one has. With ILE RPG still being
developed, it's an interesting time to be an RPG programmer.

JMO
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Beck <CBeck@good-sam.com>
> What does everyone think of the RPG cycle, for todays programming?
>
> I got my programming degree in 98 and I never heard a word about a RPG
cycle in school.
> I now have gotten a new manager, who comes from a RPG II background and
thinks wonders of the cycle.
>
> Also if anyone has any or can point me to info on the cycle.
>
>
> Thanks for all your guys (and gals) input, I have learned more from this
list than all my RPG classes.

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