Re: has RPG come a long way or what?

["Alan E." <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The COBOL programmers taking RPG-400 once, some of them had
the fiercest hard time understanding the cycle. One guy kept
asking "But where's the READ?" He couldn't figure out how
the code got the fields input.

I don't miss indicator spaguetti at all.

- Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: "G Armour" <garmour400r@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: has RPG come a long way or what?


| Well, it's a little backwards.  I was trying to envision
*my* grandfathers back in
| the 70's when they were still working, albeit not RPG or
any programming for that
| matter.  But had they been... it would have been my
grandfather's RPG.
|
| Oh, wait, now I see... *you* guys were coding RPG in the
70's.  <whack on head>
| <g,d,r>
|
| GA
|
| --- ttufankj@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
| > I've been coding RPG since '76.  I guess that makes me
the grandfather.
| >
| >
| > Tom Daly <Tdaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >
| >
| > You know how old you have to be to even get the joke?
Now I am feeling
| > old!
| >
| > |
| > |  Umm... It's not your grandfather's RPG?
| > |
| > |  (sorry, couldn't resist.)
| > |
| > |  GA
| > |
|
|
|
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