On 10/29/2013 01:27 PM, john Culleton wrote: > My work as a programmer began in 1968 on an IBM 360/40, using > COBOL. RPG was the language of choice on the 1401, the 360-20 > and later on the AS400. It was designed to be easily understood > by those who started out on IBM EAM (Electronic Accounting > Machines.)
Back when I learned it, I was told that it was designed to make a (real) computer emulate a card collator/sorter, and that it was intended to allow people who'd worked on them to continue to work using those new-fangled[1] computers. Now, when I see RPG I think of Role Playing Game, such as DND. [1]Has anybody out there ever seen something called "old-fangled?"
