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As a young one, the problem I have with cycle programs is not that I don't understand them or can't use them.
- They lead to monolithic programs
- Are harder to read
- More difficult to maintain
- Blocks the use of newer features
- The style of a cycle program is significantly different from linear programs.
So taking the arguments above into account, our more experienced / older technical experts agreed to disallow them in our coding standards.
I have seen one new cycle program in the last four years, it was a one-shot program for a migration of the database where almost all records from a file had to be updated. I have to admit it was very performant.
Joni
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