Re: why rpg and not cobol -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:27:16 -0700
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On 4/11/13 2:40 PM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:

My own experience with trying to use RPG with the "cycle" very much
mirrors yours; I think I have never had occasion to write such a
program, except as an "experiement" to try to learn what it was "all about".

That seems rather surprising, given that you're a far better programmer than I, and I use The Cycle quite frequently.

Note that I can't recall ever using level breaks or secondary files, and frequently I don't use a primary file either, tying LR to something else (like the user indicating a desire to exit, or a system API indicating an end of data), but I'm not one to walk when I can ride The Cycle.

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JHHL

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