RE: Renaming RPG

["Rusling, John B. (Alliance)" <jbrusling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm really growing fond of Gecko too, or Gekko?

could be  CRTGKOPGM (yeah) or   CRTGCKPGM (nah) or CRTGKKPGM  (good too).

or maybe just Lizard

CRTLZDPGM  Create Lizard Program!  Oh yeah, there it is!

What do you do?
I'm a Lizard programmer.

or

What language(s) do you program in?
Lizard, C, Java...

John B.






>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [SMTP:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com]
>       Sent:   Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:19 AM
>       To:     'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
>       Subject:        Renaming RPG
>
>       I was just thinking that maybe RPG (Report Program
> Generator) should
> be
>       renamed. . .
>
>       Not that we need one more name change within IBM, but in reality
> most of the
>       name changes that have happened were because the
> initial name didn't
>       adequately describe what the product was or the product
> was named
>       prematurely.  Maybe the acronymn just needs to be
> changed to include
> more
>       buzz word's -- Reliable, Progressive, Guaranteed.
>
>       I don't know when RPG first came about, but I am guessing that
> todays RPG is
>       a far cry from where it started.  Maybe when they allow
> us to create
> our own
>       data types they can name it Rava (instead of Java;-).
>
>       Just thinking out loud,
>       Aaron Bartell