Re: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way

There's always that transition.  Much like coding *ENTRY in the comment
section of a main program PI for the old timers who are trying to figure
out where the program's parameters are.

Rob Berendt

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                    "Jon Paris"
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 >> 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.

Personally I don't believe it is true.  The "work" is done in a number of
columns on the F and I specs whose meaning in no way jumps off the page at
you.

If you have to write comments to explain it, to me that is self-defeating.
It also does nothing to help a non-cycle programmer understand how to
modify
the code - it merely helps them to understand what it currently does (or
did
at the time the comment was written <grin>)

Jon Paris
Partner400

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