RE: RPG Cycle (was Multi-Occurring DS)

Ok. I shall change my question a bit.

What would your answer be if "MR" is largely abandoned by 99% of
programmers in your shop and most of them will not be able to understand
it when encounter one and you do not see a come back anytime in the
future?

If your answer is go ahead with it and document it really well in the
cycle program so they can understand it, then my next question is: is it
really that hard or impossible to use the standard method? If your
answer is yes, then that is what we disagreed on, which would need to
resolve under IT shop standard or preference.

(Note: old and lazy is never a good excuse in a professional field. I
certainly do not want to hear my doctor say that to me.) :)



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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Kahn
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:32 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RPG Cycle (was Multi-Occurring DS)

On 19/12/2007, Lim Hock-Chai <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What would your answer be if your IT shop, as a whole, has decided to
discourage/ban "MR"?

That's a different question. It's no longer about whether cycle coding
is a bad thing in the modern environment but whether violating shop
standards is a bad thing.

What would your answer be if your IT shop, as a whole, has decided to
go with VB? But you have find a neat way to do something in java.

Change shops possibly. :-)

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Dave...
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