Re: Chalk one up for "The Cycle"

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why is the cycle important? Because you can code something in two
lines rather than six lines? What is that important?

On 4/25/07, James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, the same thing could be accomplished with Interactive
> SQL. If I were as skilled in SQL as I am in RPG, C,
> OPNQRYF, CL, MI, PL/I, BASIC, FORTRAN, HTML, &c. (which
> I'm not). And if the box in question had Interactive SQL
> (which it apparently doesn't). As such, even if that
> option had been open to me, it obviously never occurred to
> me, and even if it had occurred to me, it would have had
> me poring over "SQL for Dummies" for about as long as it
> took me to just do the damn thing and get it over with.
>
> My point is that forcing a (repaired) update trigger to
> trip on every record of a file, without actually changing
> the file, would take a lot more lines of code to
> accomplish in C, PL/I, or even a non-Cycle RPG program
> (where it would take at least 6 lines, including either a
> RETURN or a SETON LR, to suppress The Cycle).
>
> And my point was aimed at those who insist that The Cycle
> (which I see as one of the very few good reasons to use
> RPG instead of some other language) is obsolete and
> useless.
>
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> JHHL
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