Re: Cycle programs and control level breaks

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Lim Hock-Chai" wrote:

> - You are comparing a common syntax in C that a C 
> programmer must know to write a C program with a feature
> in RPG that most RPG programmers try to avoid.

Not at all. In both cases, if you aren't aware of that 
particular language characteristic, it WILL come back to 
bite you.

More to the point, as a mixed-language programmer, who 
spent 5 years at the University getting a Bachelor of 
Science degree that *required* work in FORTRAN, Pascal, 
PL/I, and PDP-11 Assembler, who took electives in COBOL 
and LISP, who also had 2 years of BASIC in high school, 
and who is self-taught in 8086 Assembler, C, Modula-2, MI, 
RPG, and CL, if I know anything about programming, I know:

SELECT YOUR LANGUAGES ACCORDING TO THEIR STRENGTHS, NOT 
THEIR WEAKNESSES, AND CODE TO THOSE STRENGTHS.

If you're going out of your way to avoid The Cycle, then 
perhaps RPG isn't the best available language for the 
problem at hand.

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JHHL