If you're knowledgeable about RPG, C, OPNQRYF, CL, MI, PL/I, BASIC, FORTRAN,
HTML, and C, why haven't you learned SQL yet?
I suppose he could have countered with:
"Why haven't you learned to delegate yet? After all, I can update a file without
writing a single line of code." <tic>
___What Bob said.
And that said, give the guy a friggin' break! He said his point was aimed at
the ones who say the cycle is obsolete. I agree with him that it has its place
in coding with faster efficiency, and he already said if he had known SQL he
probably would have done it with SQL.
Geez, he did the thing in two lines, and here two weeks later I can see my old
RPG students, veteran Cobol programmers, wandering around in confusion, asking,
"Yeah, but where do you read the file? Yeah, but how do you input the file
records?" And the C++ guys (in which I'm a newbie but future master) are
wondering how you can do that without any includes or prototypes or functions
or brackets!
Now I also encourage him to learn SQL, he'll get there. I am myself moving to
do all my new file stuff in SQL now, just because IMO IBM is going to expand on
SQL for database use, not on DDS, they've said so, therefore it's the curve of
time coming this way. But even there, I find myself often "emulating" the cycle
when it's a report with totals and all that...
---Alan
midrange.com
