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I learned both RPG II and COBOL when I started out on the System/3. Because
of the Cycle, I did find RPG easier to learn and it took less code.
I think that RPG IV free-format, if one doesn't use a primary file, is much
like COBOL, especially if one OPENs and CLOSEs the files (which I usually
do). I don't mean the syntax, of course, but that fact that the programmer
has to do most of the control.
I installed COBOL at a previous employer back in 2006. Since I hadn't used
it since the late 70s, I was going to try to write a few programs in it.
Then Jon told me, "It ain't your father's COBOL, Jerry." I was undeterred,
but never got around to reading the manual.
I worked on another system that had both RPG II and COBOL. The RPG compiler
created byte code that was interpreted by a Cobol Interpreter so both
compilers generated the same byte code.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
You can observe a lot by watching. - Yogi Berra
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