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Mark Walter wrote:

> That is a little elitist isn't it.

It wasn't intended that way.

I try to write my programs so that any AS/400 programmer should be able
to understand what's going on, regardless of any RPG/II knowledge.

Sticking to cycle programming may be a benefit to the programmer who
knows the program, but I hate diving into a "cycle program"
(even with my 20 years of RPG experience).

With the increasing difficulty of getting (young) people to program on
the AS/400 platform, we should throw away the "level breaks".
It almost made me quit my first S/38 job having to learn the cycle, and I'd
only Cobol, Fortran and Basic in my "luggage".
One can only imagine what thoughts may run through a Java/C/Python-trained
person would think of a "cycle program"...

I can't help thinking that one (sub-conscious) reason for sticking with the 
cycle
is "job protection". I hope that I'm wrong, and that it's just lack of time
to learn all the new features of ILE RPG.





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