Re: programming language genealogy

["Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can post your comments about the missing RPG to
http://www.digibarn.com/talk/index.html
I included a brief explanation of the still wide-use of RPG
The chart mentions the "green" line as having "thousands of users".
I think we should count as tens or hundreds of thousands of coders,
and multi-millions of end users.
I do think it is worthwhile to educate the masses on what are the
current business languages in today's computing.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: programming language genealogy


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> >You could probably lobby them to include it on the chart.  It does meet
> >the criteria explained at the top.  But after they submitted it would
> >probably be colored orange, (just to get your blood pressure up).
>
> No, I dont seem to be a very good lobbyist.
>
> I would classify RPG as a framework type of a language, while the ones on
> the chart are procedural. ( but then, postscript is on the chart and that
> has some framework aspects to it. )
>
> In the original RPG framework, the programmer specified the files in one
> location, filling in the prompts for how the file was to be used.  Same
for
> matching records, level breaks, and output header and detail.  Then in the
> calcs there were conditioning indicators to control at what place in the
run
> cycle that code was to run.
>
> Other computer companies back in the day did not have similar languages
that
> customers would use to get their systems to do useful work?
>
> -Steve
>
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