Re: RPG Trivia

Finally someone who has knowledge.  I began using RPG on a 360/20 in 1967
(very reluctantly).  As a Fortran programmer I did not want to give up "my
Logic" but the accounting machine emulator won me over after a time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Dixon" <rob.dixon@erros.co.uk>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: RPG Trivia


> Jeff
>
>
> > Do you know the name of the person who invented RPG - a woman in the US
Navy
> > in 1964 I believe.
>
> At the risk of showing my age, I can tell you that the very last computer
course
> that I attended was in 1965 and this was for RPG on an IBM 1440 - i.e.
before
> system /360.  Since the 1440 had been around for a little while then, I
imagine
> that RPG had also.   I always assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that it was an
IBM
> language.  For those that don't know, the acronym was for Report Program
> Generator.  It was for batch use only, and was intended to be easy to
learn for
> those used to wiring plug boards on IBM punched card machines, such as IBM
421
> tabulator, 609 summary punch etc..  I had already done a course on wiring
those -
> you didn't get bugs, you got "back circuits".  Although it was batch only,
you
> could do create some quite sophisticated programs with it and sometime
these were
> quite large - even as much as 64k on a /360 !!  Programs were much smaller
then.
>
> Grace Hopper did not work for IBM - she was in the US navy.  I doubt that
she had
> anything to do with RPG.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Rob
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