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Well, you could call it iFree.


Jeff Stevens
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My $0.02....

At this point, the only change I would make is to 'officially' change its
name to 'RPG' and forget about the fact that it's actually an acronym (if
that hasn't been done already).

However, I disagree that free-format no-cycle version of RPG is anything
other than RPG. By all means call it F-RPG (or FRPG) or something similar,
but no matter what bells and whistles you add to it, it's still RPG -
record-level processing and opcodes and all. That's not a bad thing.

Frankly, why do we even care what it's *called* - no-one outside the '400
world has heard of it, but is that really a problem? How many of these
languages have you heard of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_list_of_programming_languages?
Keep
calling it RPG - it's a name that '400 people know and are happy with.
Changing its name won't get more people to use it.

Rory


On 7/30/07, James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...A "/FREE-only," Cycle-less version, on the other
hand, ought to be called something entirely different.
Which is something I've been saying for years.

--
JHHL

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