9 Jul
2012
9 Jul
'12
7:37 a.m.
On 9 Jul 2012 at 10:17, Keith Monahan wrote:
On 7/8/2012 5:10 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
No--it refers to the programming language RPG, which mandated that
fields for statement types be in certain columns. Colum 1, for
example, used "D" to specify a data element declaration and "A" to
specify computational statements. There were other characters for,
say, print formatting.
Drum cards were a necessity when punching.
--Chuck
You're not really old school unless the only
thing that comes to
mind when the term "RPG" is used is "what goes in column 1?"
Is this a D&D reference?