Re: RPG Cycle

[Alan- <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The cycle is NOT easy to learn. Not a one of you found it intuitive when you
> first learned it. It is only now that you know it that it is "easy".
>
> Teach me Matching Records in 10 minutes. Where does *INZSR get called? Why
> are the files getting opened without me opening them - show me where in my
> code that is happening?
>
> Easy - pah!
>
> Free format RPG - now THAT is easy.
>   
By the way, what ever happened to the H1-H9 indicators? (I know, they 
still work, right?)

I taught AS400 programming (new at the time, and yes Trevor it was 
AS400!) to a bunch of Cobol programmers, 1 programmers, PC programmers, 
and new grads. The RPGII programmers had no problem at all with the 
cycle. At the time there was almost no existing code "out there" that 
didn't use the cycle except some display-file programs.

The ones who had the most difficult time I think were the Cobol 
programmers. They kept on asking me where the program did the input from 
the file, and that little "P" there in column 15 just didn't seem to 
satisfy them at all.

As I've had to go back and maintain existing primary-file code where I 
HAD to extricate the logic from the cycle for various reasons, I've 
gotten more used to just writing new code in-line and either "emulating" 
the cycle in any kind of way a bit.

I miss it. :-)

--Alan