RE: RPG Trivia -- MIDRANGE-L

I learned RPG not RPGII or RPGIII on an IBM 370 using punched cards in 1980.
It was at a state technical college so I'm sure we were behind the times.
Sorry, I don't know who developed or named it.

Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
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North Haven, CT 06473
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jamie Coles
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 9:50 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: RPG Trivia


Not sure if I'm correct but here's my tuppenceworth

RPG2 was adopted by IBM on the System 34 and maybe even before that on the
system 32 and System 3.  RPG (Report Program Generator) was also available
on Wang and Digital machines - cross platform programming decades before
Java !!  Since then the 36 used RPG2 and the 38 RPGIII and the 400 RPG400
and RPGIV.

Other third party companies also developed RPG compilers for theses
machines, notably ASNA with their RPGIII for the 36 years before IBM
allowed the CALL PARM facility on the S/36.

RPG's humble origins were drawn from the punch card days ( with all those
chads)

I'm not sure if the lady you mention was Grace Hopper who is credited with
inventing the term bug - I think she passed away recently.

If any of the above is incorrect please accept my apologies - especially
Grace Hopper if she is reading this.

Jamie Coles
-----Original Message-----
From:   Bull, Jeff [SMTP:BullJ1@Midas-Kapiti.com]
Sent:   Friday, April 06, 2001 2:08 PM
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:        RPG Trivia

Do you know the name of the person who invented RPG - a woman in the US
Navy
in 1964 I believe.

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Jeff Bull.
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