In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/13/2006
at 02:54 PM, "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Is something a programming language just because people used it for
>programming? :-) An RPG program was sort of an accounting machine
>simulator.
While RPG is an awkward language[1] for general use, even the 1401
version was more sophisticated than an EAM plugboard.
>The program source was a punch board specification.
Punch board? I've never heard that term before, only plug board.
>Card jams on a Mod 20's MFCM
EXPN? Lrf, V xabj jung vg bssvpvnyyl fgnaqf sbe <t>?
[1] Well, language family.
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