Re: RPG Cycle Oldtimers!

["Jim" <jcannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am just wondering something. 

I have read with interest everyone's comments on the RPG Cycle. I 
have taken note of some of the respondants graduating in 97 and 98 
etc.

I am wondering how many of you started out with the System/360 
Model/20 and RPG, and followed the migration thru S/3, /32, /34, /36.
 
I don't consider the S/38 in this family of computers. The S/38 was a 
totally different computer, and totally different operating system.

Remember the introduction of 'EXCPT'? For those of you who 
graduated in 97, 98, EXCPT was the panacea that allowed us to 
finally 'break the cycle'.



From:                   Tom.Clements@helpsystems.com
Subject:                Re: RPG Cycle
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I graduated in '97, and we did learn the cycle, but we were encouraged to
avoid it. We did have one instructor who considered the cycle a
sophisticated tool - or so he said.
I've run across it a couple of times working with old code, but I'm no fan.
I've used it occasionally for quick-n-dirty programs to create test data,
but never for a production piece.

Tom Clements
Help/Systems Inc.
612-563-2780

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