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I'm a PICK programmer.  Just wondering how marketable PROC programming
knowledge is....

ZERO !

Quote:>I'm a PICK programmer.  Just wondering how marketable PROC programming
>knowledge is....

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Jim Harger

Wow!  A real sense of humor....

Quote:>I'm a PICK programmer.  Just wondering how marketable PROC programming
>knowledge is....

By itself, not much, but if your other Pick/MV skills are strong, it could
prove useful if you find yourself working on a legacy system which uses a lot
of cryptic procs, especially if they update files.

Regards,
Charlie

I think you should know something about Proc.  There are plenty of systems out
there that rely heavily on procs, so unless you are only developing new
software, you will have to deal with them.

If you create anything new using Proc though, you are doing a disservice to
those who will have to figure out your work at some point in the future.

I would add though, that the "menu processor" that was supposed to replace Proc
for character based menus, is kind of crummy.   I suppose that Proc is still
useful for that kind of menu (we don't use it), as you can make changes to it
without compiling, and if a user "bombs" because of a change to a menu Proc, it
is usually a fairly benign problem.  The macro processor, on the other hand, is
extremely useful for "one off" reports and routines, putting processes to
sleep, etc..

Robert Herbin

not marketable, but a bit like shell programming, so if you understand
programming you should just add it to your resume as PICK shell
programming urp !

who (other than henry) can program in BATCH ????

dave.

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It must be close to 15 years since they took the BATCH section out of the
Microdata PROC manual. AFAIK nobody has done anything much with BATCH
since BASIC hit its stride. Remember the DELETE PROC? That turkey seemed
to have a life of its own. I distinctly recall using "COPY ... (O,D" (note
the comma!) to delete items from PROC without dropping to TCL because
DELETE was a PROC itself. All of which just goes to show I should have
been using BASIC except that this predated the EXECUTE statement. Why
don't I miss those days?

IAC, I'm pleased to report that, B/ADD and B/DEL being illegal names for
UNIX files, jBASE does not support them. <g>

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Quote:>>who (other than henry) can program in BATCH ????

>Me, Me, Me!

>And, since I never could remember which was which of Y22 and Y23, I've
>still got the manual around here somewhere.  You never know when you
>might need it.

Jim Harger