Is IBM RPG classic?

[Mike Kenzie]

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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>> To the people of the microcomputer age, "RPG" appears to refer only to"role
>> playing games".
>> --Chuck
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> 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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