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"Paul Raulerson" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You might want to be careful about being so adamant... for example, just TRY to use 'the cycle" in a VA/RPG application. It's real RPG, it's an IBM product - and it does not even HAVE the cycle in it. Even when running report programs that use iSeries data.
Then I would argue that it is RPG in name only. Just as the various QBASICs, TrueBASICs MacBASICs and Visual BASICs are BASIC in name only. Just as they are most definitely NOT real BASIC (they are in fact something that transcends BASIC and begins to resemble PL/I), VA/RPG, if it lacks The Cycle, is most definitely NOT RPG, because The Cycle is one of a very small handful of characteristics that DEFINE RPG.
If you take the wheels off a car, is it still a car? -- JHHL
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