Re: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way

You're right Andrew.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Borts" <Andrewb@SETACORPORATION.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: RE: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way


> >Is it not true that if one knows RPG or have little bit of programming
> on
> >the AS/400 they can pick up the detail of a cycle code IF one is
> descriptive
> >within the code itself. i.e. lines of text describing the logic at
> different
> >lines.  This doesn't have to be a novel.
>
> Those are called comments, right?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@Partner400.com>
> To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:23 PM
> Subject: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way
>
>
> > >> IMHO, there is nothing inherently evil about using level breaks or
> > matching record to produce reports.  RPG, after all, -is- Report
> Program
> > Generator.
> >
> > To me the main problem with the cycle etc. is simple.  I want my
> programs
> to
> > be understood by the maximum number of people possible.  Many schools,
> > books, etc. don't even teach the cycle these days.  Many RPG
> programmers
> > don't understand it since they were either never taught it or learnt
> RPG
> > after using other languages (COBOL, Basic, whatever) and were already
> > familiar with coding their own "cycle".
> >
> > The minute I use the cycle I have automatically eliminate a large
> group of
> > programmers from being able to simply grasp the intent and mechanics
> of my
> > program.  End of story.  There are other reasons, but this is the
> biggie
> in
> > my book.
> >
> > Jon Paris
> > Partner400
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