RE: Chalk one up for "The Cycle"

And that said, give the guy a friggin' break! He said his
point was aimed at the ones who say the cycle is obsolete. I
agree with him that it has its place in coding with faster
efficiency, and he already said if he had known SQL he
probably would have done it with SQL.

All I'm saying that it's (past) time to learn SQL. I could maybe understand a
RPG only programmer not
knowing. But for somebody with experience in so many languages, I'm surprised
SQL isn't one of them.

Perhaps my surprise led me to write a little stronger than I should have. If
so, I apologize.

Geez, he did the thing in two lines, and here two weeks later
I can see my old RPG students, veteran Cobol programmers,
wandering around in confusion, asking, "Yeah, but where do
you read the file? Yeah, but how do you input the file
records?" And the C++ guys (in which I'm a newbie but future
master) are wondering how you can do that without any
includes or prototypes or functions or brackets!

So James saves a bit a time using the cycle, which will be wasted 10 fold by
anybody coming in after
him trying to follow the implicit logic in the cycle program.

Now I also encourage him to learn SQL, he'll get there. I am
myself moving to do all my new file stuff in SQL now, just
because IMO IBM is going to expand on SQL for database use,
not on DDS, they've said so, therefore it's the curve of time
coming this way. But even there, I find myself often
"emulating" the cycle when it's a report with totals and all that...

Charles


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