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on Wednesday December 20 2017, @05:09AM
from the if-you-know-then-you're-old dept.
from the if-you-know-then-you're-old dept.
Many of you have heard about one of the oldest programming languages, COBOL, and you have also heard that COBOL programmers are much asked for nowadays to maintain old legacy code. There's another old-timer which few know about and which is still in use and will be in use for quite a while for applications in various specific fields (i.e. finance, banking, etc.). Its name is IBM RPG.
[...] RPG has been around for more than half a century. By the end of the 1950s, IBM had built a huge number of electromechanical devices called tabulating machines.
Let's talk about IBM RPG.
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(Score: 2) by fadrian on Wednesday December 20 2017, @02:04PM
I was working on a product on IBM's AS400 (now iSeries). The project was produced using C++, Java, and RPG. It turned out that the easiest way to write an installer for the AS400 that actually looked like an AS400 installer program was to use RPG. It was an odd, primitive language, but it was Turing-complete and I wasn't doing much (copying files and writing status). What can I say... It worked for what I was doing.
It's a language using a fixed format (like early FORTRAN), looks like screen noise (worse than COBOL, better than Perl), and for simple screen-display programs it's not too awful. But I wouldn't like to use it day in and day out.
That is all.