Re: Need Some RPG Technical Questions

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

And to quote Edwin Starr..."Absolutely nothing"

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:24 PM, James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert Munday wrote:
>  > The manager on my new project has asked me to derive a list of RPG
>  > technical questions for a programmer interview she is conducting
>  > later today.  The company is coming off of two old platforms (COBOL
>  > and Lansa) and their intent is to do all development in RPGIV, /Free
>  > and embedded SQL.  They have been burned previously by a programmer
>  > or two who represented mucho experience only to find that they did
>  > not know sh** from Shinola.
>  >
>  > If you have questions to submit which are thoughtful and moderately
>  > involved, please send them to me offline at RWMunday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>  Q: "What is The RPG Program Cycle, and what is it good for?"
>
>  A: It is an implicit "do-until-completed" loop, with implicit file I/O
>  available if needed, that is found in all RPG programs unless explicitly
>  disabled.
>
>  In addition to its original purpose of report generation, it provides
>  a simple way to implicitly perform a given operation on all records of a
>  file, or to set up a program to implicitly repeat any operation (such as
>  a user interaction) until a "work completed" condition is raised.
>
>
>  And I do hope the fellow(s) who "did not know sh** from Shinola" didn't
>  get a job as a shoeshine! (Or as a stablehand, for that matter!)
>
>  --
>  James H. H. Lampert
>  Touchtone Corporation
>
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