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Regarding SQL, the processing of blocks of 1000 records involves stuff
way beyond anything one could reasonably expect to be able to do from SQL.
And regarding The Cycle being all-but-deprecated in /FREE, I've said all
of this before, and undoubtedly will say it again, but
1. If IBM Rochester had put even remotely the effort into either an ILE
PL/I or some sort of a ILE version of a "QBASIC," that they did into
making RPG *look like* PL/I or QBASIC, then they'd have something much
better than /FREE.
2. The Cycle is one of the most idiomatic elements of RPG, as well as
the language's only truly unique feature: it can give you a free ride
through a file with far more control than you get with SQL (particularly
to catch problems before they screw up the entire file), and it also,
simply by slaving INLR to INKC, gives you a free "event loop" for an
interactive program.
3. If you eliminate traditional RPG formatting, it merely ceases to
*look like* RPG. If you remove even the *option* of riding The Cycle,
then it ceases to *be* RPG.
4. If you're not going to learn how to make at least basic use of The
Cycle (and/or nontraditional use of it, e.g., as an event loop), why
bother *learning* RPG?
--
JHHL
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