It was part of our program in the '90s possible because it was still in use by the local utility company, and popular on the AS/400. But learning that and APL gave me a distorted sense of program beauty.
----- Original Message ----- > From: "General Discussion, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > To: "General Discussion, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2019 3:12:07 PM > Subject: Re: Is IBM RPG classic? >> To the people of the microcomputer age, "RPG" appears to refer only to"role >> playing games". >> --Chuck > > Then there are those of us who, upon hearing "RPG", initially think of > something > entirely different:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG > > Will > > > "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to > add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de > Saint-Exupery > > > "The names of global variables should start with // " -- > https://isocpp.org
