RE: Resistance to change (was free format question)

In my case, it's not "resistance to change"; if it were 
that, then why am I fluent, to varying degrees, in 3 
assemblers and over a dozen HLLs, in multiple dialetcs?

Likewise, RPG has a highly stylized syntax based on column 
positions, and it also has excellent file I/O, and an 
implicit "DO UNTIL LR IS TRUE" loop surrounding every 
program. If you don't bother learning how to use The 
Cycle, though, then there's little reason for you to be 
using RPG at all

I learnt the cycle but most programs I write and most I have seen these days do 
not use it, So if you are on an AS400/iSeries where the programming language 
used is RPG then if you don't use the cycle what are you supposed to code in?

, and if you take away the 
column-position-based syntax, you may end up with a great 
language, but it has ceased to be RPG.

But isn't that what the numbers at the end are for? To tell you its a new 
version? Just because it bears little resemblance to the original does not mean 
it is no longer RPG


Steve