Re: RPG IV to solve national weather problems

Being that I was out sick Friday, I had almost sent this around to our 
group here at work this morning.  But I thought it was too good to be true 
lol.  April fools I missed, but it didn't miss me.

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BTW....Isn't it April Fools?


> According to the national weather service, the IBM iSeries i5 with RPG 
IV
> and the new i5/OS Version 6 Release  will be used from now on to monitor
> the weather the impacts North America.
> "This is largely due to the advanced capabilities of that computer
> language
> over others we have attempted to use, such as Java. With the IBM RPG lV
> language, we can write a program to monitor the weather and it virtually
> never crashes. With Java and C which is what we had be using, it would
> crash
> frequently." Said Sidd Finch a WMS meteorologist with the U.S. Weather
> service.
>
> The RPG IV Language has been in production for 10 years and is used in a
> half million companies world-wide. Apparently it is coming into vogue 
late
> in life but certainly will make future computer programming models at 
the
> NWS much more accurate.
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