Re: Renaming RPG

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

Dare,

Ha.  Did the topic change from 'Renaming RPG' to 'Give Us The Tie Back To
Your Suggestion To Renaming RPG' ?

Head out on that limb, be creative, give us your suggestion for renaming
RPG.

John B.





From: "Dare" <oludare@ix.netcom.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Subject: Re: Renaming RPG
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:10:51 -0400
Reply-To: rpg400-l@midrange.com

Very creative John but one thing is missing for me.  I will like to have a
connection back to the language, like a tie back not necessary an
abbreviation but that's fine 2.  So, what will be the tie back with Gecko or
Gekko and Lizard?????

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rusling, John B. (Alliance)" <jbrusling@alliancedev.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: RE: Renaming RPG


> 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