RE: PC RPG compiler?

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Farbeit from me to toss gasoline around indiscriminately <g>, but I had
three versions of BASIC for my Atari ST--GFA, HiSoft, and Atari.  Each was
quite different from the other.  On the PC there were several versions of
dos BASIC that came with the OS at one time or another.  I can remember
BASIC, BASICA, GW, and Q, but there may have been others.  Borland had a
BASIC for a while.  Bill Gates made his first real money from BASIC.  Kemeny
and Kurtz, IIRC, came out with the original version of the language.  It was
later packaged as TrueBASIC.

I'd like to see RPGIV for the TI99-4A, myself.  <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: PC RPG compiler?
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> Actually I threw away my manual for basic which came with my
> original PC
> quite some time ago.  Or will that be argued that it was IBM
> PC DOS Basic?
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> Rob Berendt
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 rob@dekko.com wrote:
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> > Then where would the manual on RPG IV be found?
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> Rob,
>
> By the same token, there's no manual for BASIC.  Sure, there's Visual
> BASIC, and Quick BASIC, and GW BASIC and even Applesoft BASIC, but no
> manual for "BASIC".
>
> Why?  Because the manuals are for a specific implementation of BASIC.
> Just as the IBM manuals are for ILE RPG (a specific
> implementation of RPG
> IV)
>
> If you created your own "Rob RPG", it might also be an
> implementation of
> RPG IV, but your manual would be for "Rob RPG", not for RPG
> IV in general.
>
> This is the point I was trying to make before it got blown up
> into this
> whole big deal -- RPG IV is the language, ILE RPG is IBM's AS/400
> compiler.
>
> But I'm sure you people will continue to write sarcastic
> messages at me
> for DARING to bring this point up.  Heaven forbid that I
> should point out
> that "ILE RPG" is not the same as "RPG IV".  What is wrong with me,
> anyway?
>
>
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