15 Dec
2019
15 Dec
'19
12:54 p.m.
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.
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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
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add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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