RE: Difference bet. Primary and Full procedural file.

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxx>]

>I have a feeling that the cycle has fallen out of favor, not
>because it's bad, but because it's old.  If the cycle never
>existed before, and were added to rpg as a 'new' feature, I'd
>bet some of the avoiders would be the first in line to try out
>the new stuff. ('hey, look at what I can do - I can define
>control breaks simply by putting a L indicator next to the field
>on an I spec, and testing for that flag!! - isn't that cool?')

Interesting take.  I hadn't considered that.

I think it's a little more complex than that.  Look at what we gave up when
we moved from RPG-II to RPG-III:  internally described files.  It seems that
when we no longer had any use for coding I-specs for record definitions,
some threw the baby out with the bath water.

- Dan Bale
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