Here, Here!! I agree with Chuck on the value of procs. Being a 25 year proctologist myself allows me to support a wide variety of platforms. Many of my UD/UV/D3 clients, while having paragraphs and other newer additions available, still function with a lot of code that was inherited from earlier conversions. Oftentimes management many not be able to justify a re-write of code just because the language isn't today's flavor.
Coming from Microdata since the 70's, you only had procs with procread/procwrite as a way to get fancy with PQ procs. PQN in 1979 offered more read/write and direct variable features but the other licenses were developing EXECUTE which, looking back, was the better tact. Still, i keep my proc skills sharpened as I still have to support it. Proc does have some pretty nifty features for such a simple command set. Earlier PQ proc didn't have read/write so they developed a sideline language called BATCH which did these tasks. BATCH is officially removed from the direct decendancy of R80/83 as D3 doesn't recognize it and i haven't seen it on any U2 systems. RPL, which predates this further never made it past the mid 1970's. Isn't it great to have choices. my 1 cent. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Results" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:18 PM Subject: Re: Proc or Para > L, > Proc predates Pick BASIC as a programming language. The short answer > (to my mind) is that Paragraph is an add-on to > Access/English/AQL/Retrieve, but Proc is really a scripting language. If > you need to automate procedures, tie complex programs into a batch, or > do other heavy lifting, Proc is great. The problem that gets all these > Proc haters on their soapbox isn't Proc, its when people use Proc for > the wrong tasks (like Proc menus instead of parametric menus). Proc > really is incredibily powerful and well worth knowing, but it shouldn't > be used for 9-% of the tasks it is normally associated with in the Pick > world. > Personally, I rtarely use Paragraph because I need to port software. > > - Charles 'Proc is JCL on Steroids' Barouch > > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
