Re: RPG hard to learn?

If a linux guy would use SED for a task, then a cycle program is likely
appropriate!

Mark Murphy
Atlas Data Systems
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-----Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
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From: Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/29/2017 01:14PM
Subject: Re: RPG hard to learn?


repeat after me .. the cycle is your friend
:)
for a business app that reads records from a file in a sequential manner
and does something with them, does some processing on a control break on a
field or list of fields, using the cycle takes much less code than coding
the logic to do it manually.


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:57 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx

wrote:

easier. The functionality of jQuery is something that is hard for me
to imagine being easier in RPG. Or even close, honestly. I think a
good test would be to ask Scott Klement, if he were tasked with
implementing jQuery today, and he could choose RPG or JavaScript,
which would he choose?

Sort of apples to oranges. jQuery is client side mainly. RPG is
server side. I wouldn't know where to being trying to duplicate
jQuery using RPG. That would be ugly.

I use both, and love both. ;)


Bradley V. Stone
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