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  3. January 2010

Re: RPG V?

Hans Boldt wrote:
Bob Cozzi wrote an article on what a fully free-form RPG V language
might look like, based on rumors that IBM is working on such a thing. I
have my opinions on the subject, and I'd be curious to know what others
here might think.

(See http://systeminetwork.com/article/what-rpg-v-might-look)

What do I think?

I think such a language should be called SOMETHING OTHER THAN RPG.

When Kemeny and Kurtz devised a simplified, largely FORTRAN-derived language that dispensed with FORTRAN's column-based rules (and FORMAT statements, and so forth), they didn't call it FORTRAN/free; they called it BASIC. When Niklaus Wirth developed an ALGOL-based language to teach incorrigibles how to write structured code, he didn't call it ALGOL-ETH; he called it Pascal.

And of course, BCPL begat B, which begat C.

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JHHL

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